2015 Event The last Ebola patient in Liberia, a 58-year-old English teacher, has been released; the nation will be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization if no new cases of the virus emerge in the next 42 days 2013 Event The University of Liberia reports the all 25,000 applicants to the University failed their admissions test because they lacked enthusiasm and didn't know basic English 2012 Event Jon Lord, an English composer and pianist and co-founder of the heavy rock group, Deep Purple, dies after suffering a pulmonary embolism 2012 Event The Rolling Stones, English rock band, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London 2012 Event The English Wikipedia protests anti-piracy legislation proposed by the U.S. Congress by shutting down its website 2011 Event The English town Wooten Bassett is re-named with the prefix 'Royal', honoring its role in repatriating British military personnel killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan 2011 Event Rioting takes place in English cities including Manchester, liverpool, Salford, Birmingham and Nottingham; police from Scotland are called in to help 2010 Event Georgia changes its second language to English; Russian was originally its second language 2007 Death Alan Coren, English writer, satirist, and humorist, worked with the BBC, died of necrotising fasciitis 2006 Event Al Jazeera launches Al Jazeera English 2005 Death Derek Bailey, English Musician 2005 Death Peter Foy, English Actor 2005 Death Humphrey Carpenter, English Author 2004 Death Graham Roberts, English Actor 2004 Death Bernard Levin, English Journalist 2004 Death Peter Barnes, English Playwright 2004 Death John Maynard Smith, English Scientist 2003 Death Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97 2003 Death Winston Graham, English Novelist 2003 Death Christopher Hill, English Historian 2003 Death John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian 2003 Death Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian 2002 Death George Porter, English Scientist 2001 Death Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet 2001 Death Anthony Storr, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression', dies 2001 Death George Carman, English Lawyer 2000 Death Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet 1999 Death Ashley Montague, English Scientist 1998 Death Monica Edwards, English Writer 1998 Death Frank Muir, English Writer 1997 Event 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards 1997 Event 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn and Geoffrey Rush 1996 Death Kenneth Muir, english scholar, dies at 89 1996 Death Frank Whittle, English Inventor 1996 Death Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69 1995 Death James Meade, English Economist 1995 Death Thelma Hulbert, English house painter, dies at 81 1995 Death Jeremy Brett, English actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 59 1995 Event Holland's debut in English domestic comp (vs. Northants, NatWest) 1995 Death Bobby Stokes, athlete, English footballer, scored the winning goal in 1976, Southampton F.C. vs. Manchester United, FA Cup Final, in the 83rd-minute, considered biggest upset in FA Cup Final history, dies at 44 1995 Death Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75 1995 Death Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61 1995 Death Marguerite Kelsey, English painter/sculptor model (Haunting), dies at 86 1995 Death David Melvin English Franklin, singer, dies at 52 1995 Death Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93), dies at 76 1995 Death Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75 1995 Death Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85 1995 Death James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86 1995 Death George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84 1995 Death Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia), dies at 88 1995 Death Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax), dies at 79 1995 Death Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65 1995 Death John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael and his Circle), dies at 73 1995 Death Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57 1995 Death Frederick West, English contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53 1994 Death John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66 1994 Death John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65 1994 Death Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64 1994 Death Alan Owen, English screenplay/actor (Hard Day's Night), dies at 69 1994 Death Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77 1994 Event 1st trains for public run in English Channel Tunnel 1994 Death Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, English composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87 1994 Death John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80 1994 Death James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75 1994 Death Deborah Bear, English still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44 1994 Death Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70 1994 Death Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83 1994 Death John Britton, English Mathematician 1994 Death Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82 1994 Death John Wain, English Poet 1994 Death John Curry, English figure skater, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics, dies of AIDS at 44 1994 Event David Platt appointed captain of English football team 1994 Death Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84 1994 Death Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52 1993 Death Kenneth Connor, English comic/actor (Carry on Sergeant), dies at 75 1993 Death Stanley Myers, English movie composer (Deer Hunter), dies at 63 1993 Death Peter Quennell, English Writer 1993 Death Desmond Nuttall, English theorist, dies at 49 1993 Death Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91 1993 Death Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63 1993 Death Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61 1993 Death Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Netherlands actor (Best Thing in Life), dies at 34 1993 Death Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80 1993 Death Rene Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80 1993 Death Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger), dies at 46 1993 Event English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat 1993 Death Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46 1993 Death Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84 1993 Death John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80 1993 Death Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at 67 1993 Death Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 1993 Death Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46 1993 Death Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3 1993 Death C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies 1993 Death Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64 1993 Death Joyce Carey, Lawrence, English actress (Number 27), dies at 94 1993 Death Bobby Moore, English soccer team captain (World champs 1966), dies 1993 Death Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82 1993 Death James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys 1993 Event Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language 1992 Death Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies at 75 1992 Death Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87 1992 Death Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77 1992 Death Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies 1992 Death Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94 1992 Death Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies 1992 Death Oliver Franks, English Public Servant 1992 Death Denholm Elliott, English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70 1992 Birthday Marina CAK Windsor, granddaughter of English prince Edward 1992 Event Helen Windsor (daughter of English prince Edward) weds Timothy Taylor 1992 Death Reginald Beck, English film editor (Robbery, Accident, Boom), dies 1991 Death Steve Marriott, English guitarist (Small Faces), dies in a fire at 44 1990 Death Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher 1990 Event British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) 1990 Death Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78 1990 Death Norbert Elias, German/English/Netherlands philosopher/sociologist, dies 1990 Death Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies 1990 Birthday Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra 1990 Death Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84 1990 Event Marina Ogilvy, daughter of English princess Alexandra, weds Paul Mowatt 1990 Death Terry Thomas, English comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78 1989 Death Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 1989 Death John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52 1989 Death Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs), dies at 80 1989 Death Alfred J Ayer, English philosopher (Logical Positivism), dies 1989 Death John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies 1989 Death Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82 1988 Birthday Edward EMG baron Downpatrick, grandson of English prince Edward 1988 Death Charles Hawtrey, English actor (Carry On), dies near London at 73 1988 Event Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal 1988 Birthday Rupert Grint, English Actor 1988 Event James Ogilvy, under English princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson 1988 Death Michael Ramsey, English Clergyman 1988 Death Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies 1988 Event English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli 1987 Event Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel 1987 Birthday Tom Felton, English Actor 1987 Event Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it 1987 Death Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65 1987 Death Gerald Brenan, English writer, dies at 92 1986 Death Harold MacMillan, English Politician 1986 Death Henry Reed, English Writer 1986 Death Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62 1986 Death Henry Moore, English sculptor/cartoonist, dies at 88 1986 Death Diana Cooper, English Celebrity 1986 Death Dora Russell, English Celebrity 1986 Death Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75 1986 Event English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead 1986 Death David Cecil, English Writer 1985 Death Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90 1985 Death Philip Larkin, hermit of Hull, English poet, dies at 63 1985 Birthday Jack Osbourne, English Celebrity 1985 Birthday Wayne Rooney, English Athlete 1985 Event Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m) 1985 Death Samuel Frith, English co-founder of soccer team (Bradford City), dies 1985 Death Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life), dies at 89 1984 Birthday Kelly Osbourne, English Actress 1984 Death John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89 1984 Death Michel Foucault, English Historian 1984 Death Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon), dies at 84 1984 Death Elizabeth Goudge, English Writer 1983 Death Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80 1983 Death Beverley Nichols, English Writer 1983 Event Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel 1983 Birthday Jennifer Ellison, English Actress 1983 Death William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80 1982 Death Colin Chapman, English Inventor 1982 Event English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England 1982 Death Anna Freud, Austria/English psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86 1982 Death Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 1982 Event Cindy Nicholas of Canada makes her 19th swim of English Channel 1982 Death Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93 1982 Death Richard N Gale, English general/paracommandant, dies at 86 1981 Event American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel 1981 Event Jon Erikson (U.S.) becomes 1st to triple cross English Channel (38:27) 1981 Event 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record English Channel (7:17) 1981 Event 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel 1981 Birthday Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael 1981 Birthday Jamelia, English Musician 1980 Death John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32 1980 Death Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77 1980 Death Kenneth Tynan, English Critic 1980 Birthday Steven Gerrard, English Athlete 1980 Death Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division), commit suicide at 23 1980 Death Alfred Hitchcock, English Director 1980 Birthday Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard 1980 Death Dixie Dean, English Athlete 1979 Event English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach 1979 Event Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel 1979 Event Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hours, 49 minutes 1979 Birthday Sophie Ellis Bextor, English Musician 1979 Birthday Frederick MGDL Windsor, son of English prince Michael 1979 Death Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52 1978 Event Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin 1978 Birthday Rio Ferdinand, English Athlete 1978 Birthday Will Champion, English Musician 1978 Event Penny Dean swims English Channel in record 7h 40m 1978 Event English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz 1978 Birthday Rebecca Loos, English Celebrity 1978 Birthday Frank Lampard, English Athlete 1978 Death Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1978 Birthday Rachel Stevens, English Musician 1978 Death Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question), dies at 73 1977 Birthday Lady Davina EAB Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard 1977 Death Richard Addinsell, English composer (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 73 1977 Death Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies 1977 Event English football international Bobby Moore retires 1977 Birthday Samantha Morton, English Actress 1977 Death E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70 1976 Birthday Dan Hawkins, English Musician 1976 Birthday Anna Friel, English Actress 1976 Death Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, dies at 84 1975 Death Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86 1975 Birthday Scott Speedman, English Actor 1975 Birthday Melanie Brown, English Musician 1975 Death Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72 1975 Birthday David Beckham, English Actor 1975 Birthday Robbie Fowler, English Athlete 1975 Death Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83 1975 Birthday Melanie Blatt, English Musician 1975 Birthday Gary Neville, English Athlete 1975 Death Julian S Huxley, English scholar/director-General (UNESCO), dies at 87 1975 Death Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93 1974 Death Cyril Connolly, English Journalist 1974 Birthday Alexander PGR duke of Ulster, son of English prince Richard 1974 Death Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist 1974 Death James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82 1974 Death Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74 1974 Birthday Victoria Beckham, English Musician 1974 Birthday Andrew English, CFL receiver for the BC Lions 1974 Death Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91 1974 Birthday Tom Jenkinson, English Musician 1974 Birthday Melanie Chisholm, English Musician 1973 Birthday Paula Radcliffe, English Athlete 1973 Death Henry Green, English Novelist 1973 Birthday Rachel Kathleen English, Thomaston, Georgia, Miss America-Georgia 1996 1973 Death W. H. Auden, English Poet 1973 Death J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist 1973 Death Stan Worthington, English cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1930-36), dies 1973 Birthday Jamie Redknapp, English Athlete 1973 Event Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season 1973 Death Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73 1973 Birthday Saffron Burrows, English Actress 1972 Death Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68 1972 Death William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29 1972 Event English prince Richard marries Birgitte of Deurs (Henriksen) 1972 Birthday Wentworth Miller, English Actor 1972 Death King Edward VIII, English Royalty 1972 Death Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies at 80 1972 Death C. Day Lewis, English Poet 1972 Birthday Steve McManaman, English Athlete 1972 Death Daisy Ashford, English witer, wrote 'The Young Sisters', dies 1972 Birthday Catherine McCormack, English Actress 1971 Birthday Ian Walker, English Athlete 1971 Birthday Mackenzie Crook, English Actor 1971 Birthday Martin Freeman, English Actor 1971 Birthday Richard D. James, English Musician 1971 Birthday Roy Keane, born in Cork, Ireland, soccer player, midfielder, manager of Ipswich Town, an English Championship club, represented Republic of Ireland in 1994 World Cup and 2002 World Cup 1971 Birthday Samantha Druce, youngest woman to swim English Channel 1970 Death Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91 1970 Birthday Beth Orton, English Musician 1970 Death Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77 1970 Death John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70 1970 Death John Barbirolli, English conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 70 1970 Birthday Nicholas CEJ Windsor, son of English prince Edward, duke of Kent 1970 Death Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67 1970 Death E. M. Forster, English Novelist 1970 Death Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61 1970 Event New English Bible published 1970 Death Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82 1970 Death Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74 1969 Birthday Jay Kay, English Musician 1969 Event 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) 1969 Birthday Bryant H. McGill, born in Mobile, Alabama, editor, author, celebrity publicist, creator, celebrity verification group, books include the 'McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme' 1969 Death Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88 1969 Death F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76 1969 Birthday Nadeem Shahid, born in Karachi, Pakistan, Nadeem 'Nads' Shahid, English first-class cricketeer, 148 game career as right-handed batsman included 6453 runs at 31.02 with 9 hundreds, played for Essex and Surrey 1968 Birthday Andy Caddick, English cricket pace bowler, New Zealand 1993 1968 Birthday Alex James, English Musician 1968 Birthday Thom Yorke, English Musician 1968 Death Granville English, composer, dies at 69 1968 Death George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies 1968 Birthday Chris Boardman, English cyclist, world 1 hour record 1968 Death Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 1968 Birthday Ed O'Brien, English Musician 1968 Birthday Damon Albarn, English Musician 1968 Birthday Daniel Craig, English Actor 1967 Birthday Paul Ince, English Athlete 1967 Death Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies 1967 Birthday Guy Pearce, English Actor 1967 Death Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms), dies at 72 1967 Death Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer (Counterattack), dies at 80 1967 Death Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60 1967 Death Joe Orton, English actor and playwright (Leaf, Murdered), dies at 34 1967 Death Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80 1967 Event "News at 10" premieres on English TV 1967 Birthday Noel Gallagher, English Musician 1966 Birthday Russell Watson, English Musician 1966 Birthday Marina V. A. Mowatt, Ogilvy, daughter of English princess Alexandra 1966 Death Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94 1966 Birthday Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, English baron/multi-millionaire 1966 Birthday Heston Blumenthal, English Celebrity 1966 Death Megan Lloyd George, English politician, dies at 64 1966 Birthday Samantha Fox, English Model 1966 Birthday Lisa Stansfield, English pop singer, Around the World 1966 Death Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66 1966 Birthday Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer, Sundays-Can't Be Sure 1965 Death William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91 1965 Birthday Will Carling, English Athlete 1965 Birthday Barry D, Iain Bakker, English pop musician, Jesus Jones 1965 Birthday Sadie Frost, English Actress 1965 Death Eleanor Farjeon, English Writer 1965 Birthday Simon Fowler, English Musician 1965 Death Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 1965 Death Edward Appleton, English Scientist 1965 Death VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67 1965 Death T. S. Eliot, English Poet 1965 Birthday Beth Gibbons, English Musician 1964 Birthday Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor, Darling How Could You 1964 Death Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher 1964 Death Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77 1964 Event Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaces Latin with English 1964 Death Jan Fabricius, Dutch/English playwright (Dolle Hans), dies at 93 1964 Birthday Sam Brown, English singer and songwriter, Stop! 1964 Death Clive Bell, English Critic 1964 Birthday Nigel Redman, English rugby international player 1964 Birthday Lauren Cowan, born in Benalla, Victoria, golfer, 1994 66th English Womens Open 1964 Birthday Bonnie Langford, English actress, Wombling Free 1964 Birthday Tim Gane, English Musician 1964 Birthday Mark H. Lascells, grandson of English princess Mary 1964 Death W Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, English Minister of Information, dies at 85 1964 Death Nancy N Witcher Astor, U.S./English feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies 1964 Birthday Alan "Reni" Wren, English pop drummer, Stone Roses-Fools Gold 1964 Birthday James RB Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra 1964 Death R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies 1964 Birthday Christopher Eccleston, English Actor 1964 Death Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91 1963 Death Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69 1963 Death William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87 1963 Death Aldous Huxley, English Novelist 1963 Death C. S. Lewis, English Author 1963 Birthday Nicolette Sheridan, English Actress 1963 Birthday Gay "Mani" Mournfield, English pop bassist, Stone Roses 1963 Birthday Jerry de Borg, English pop guitarist, Jesus Jones-Real, Real, Real 1963 Death Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers), dies 1963 Birthday Jarvis Cocker, English Musician 1963 Birthday Tracey Emin, English Artist 1963 Birthday Harriet Wheeler, English pop singer/composer, The Sundays 1963 Birthday Jason Isaacs, English Actor 1963 Event English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy 1963 Birthday David Gavurin, English pop guitarist/composer, Sundays, Blind 1963 Birthday David Thewlis, English Actor 1963 Death William Beveridge, English Economist 1963 Birthday Ian Brown, English rock vocalist, Stone Roses-Made of Stone 1963 Birthday Seal, English vocalist/songwriter, Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose 1963 Birthday Jazzie B, Beresford Romeo, English rapper, Soul II Soul-Feel Free 1963 Birthday Caron Wheeler, English singer, Soul II Soul-Keep on Movin' 1963 Death Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St. Paul), dies at 60 1963 Birthday Paul Brindley, English pop bassist, Sundays, Can't Be Sure 1962 Birthday Ralph Fiennes, born in Suffolk, England, actor, English Patient 1962 Death Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 1962 Birthday John Squire, English pop guitarist, Stone Roses, She Bangs the Drums 1962 Birthday Mike Nocito, born in Germany, rocker, leader of English pop band, Johnny Hates Jazz 1962 Birthday Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker 1962 Death Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician 1962 Death George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86 1962 Event Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba) 1962 Birthday George P N earl of St. Andrews, under English prince Edward 1962 Death John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82 1962 Death Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist 1962 Birthday Stuart Pearce, English Coach 1962 Birthday Martin D Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary 1961 Death John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie, dies 1961 Birthday Jeremy Northam, English Actor 1961 Birthday David AC viscount Linley, son of English princess Margaret/mystic 1961 Event Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) at 42, completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hours 10 min 1961 Event Antonio Abertondo swims English Channel round trip (44 miles) 1961 Death [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Professor), dies at 88 1961 Birthday Maxi Priest, Max Elliott, Jamaican/English singer, Wild World 1961 Event English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley 1961 Death Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81 1961 Birthday Ricky Gervais, English Writer 1961 Birthday Ranking Roger, rock vocalist, English Beat-Drowning 1960 Birthday Gary Lineker, English soccer player, World Cup 1986 1960 Birthday Ashley Ingram, English singer, Fizzz-Just an Illusion 1960 Death Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist/daughter of Emmeline, dies at 78 1960 Birthday John Rocca, English funk singer, Southern Freeze 1960 Death Aneurin Bevan, English Politician 1960 Birthday 7th marquess of Cholmondeley, English large landowner/millionaire 1960 Birthday Kristin Scott Thomas, English Actress 1960 Event English prince Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) 1960 Birthday Lloyd Honeyghan, English welterweight boxing champ, 1986 1960 Birthday Guy Chadwick, English singer and songwriter, House of Love 1960 Death J. L. Austin, English Philosopher 1960 Birthday Matthew Bourne, English Dancer 1959 Death Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India, dies at 78 1959 Death Stanley Spencer, English Artist 1959 Birthday Chris Lowe, English rock keyboardist, Pet Shop Boys-It's a Sin 1959 Birthday Tony Meo, English billiards champion, snookers 1959 Birthday Stephen Wolfram, English Scientist 1959 Death Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78 1959 Birthday Joe Elliott, English Musician 1959 Death Ernest Newman, English Critic 1959 Birthday Alan "Wild"er, English rock vocalist/music, Depeche Mode-Wild! 1959 Birthday Steven Morrissey, English Musician 1959 Birthday Kamaran Abdalla, Iraq/English/Netherlands actor, Goede Tijden Selechte Tijden 1959 Death Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies 1959 Death Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69 1958 Birthday Dave Murray, English pop guitarist, Iron Maiden-Powerslave 1958 Birthday Spider Stacy, English rock vocalist, The Pogues 1958 Birthday Simon LeBon, English Musician 1958 Death George Edward Moore, English Philosopher 1958 Event 1st women in English House of Lords 1958 Birthday Danielle Dax, English Musician 1958 Death Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85 1958 Birthday Jack Richards, English cricket wicket-keeper, mid-80's 1958 Death Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 1958 Death Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80 1958 Birthday Christiane Amanpour, English Journalist 1957 Birthday Phil Collen, English heavy-metal guitarist, Def Leppard-Love Bites 1957 Birthday Stephen Morris, English pop drummer, Joy Division-Atmosphere 1957 Birthday Glen Hoddle, English soccer ball player, Tottenham 1957 Birthday Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer, swam English Channel 19 times 1957 Birthday Robbie Grey, rocker, English rock band Modern English, most famous song, "I Melt With You" 1957 Death Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48 1957 Birthday Lee John, English singer and actor, Body Talk 1957 Birthday Philip Chevron, English pop musician, Pogues-Peace and Love 1957 Death Joyce A L Cary, English writer (Horse's Mouth), dies at 68 1957 Death L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect, dies at 77 1957 Death Lena Ashwell, English actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84 1957 Death Wyndham Lewis, English Author 1957 Birthday Mark E. Smith, English rock vocalist, Fall-Fall in a Hole 1957 Death Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist, dies at 87 1956 Birthday Nigel Kennedy, born in Brighton, English, violinist, jazz and classical music, boy prodigy, play Fats Waller tunes by ear at age 10, featured on Sarah Brightman's album Harem 1956 Birthday Danny Boyle, English Director 1956 Death Frederick Soddy, English Scientist 1956 Death Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist, dies at 84 1956 Birthday Jayne Irving, English TV hostess, Live at 3 1956 Birthday Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist, Joy Division-Transmission 1956 Birthday Anne Dudley, English Composer 1956 Death Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English Journalist 1956 Birthday Peter Hook, English rock bassist, New Order-Round and Round, Run 1956 Death A. A. Milne, English Author 1956 Birthday Simon Howard, English large landowner, Castle Howard 1956 Death Alexander Korda, English movie producer (Henry VIII), dies at 62 1956 Birthday Imelda Staunton, English Actress 1956 Birthday Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist, Joy Division 1955 Birthday Dave Murray, English pop guitarist, Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast 1955 Birthday Paul Simonon, English pop bassist, Clash-Havana 3 AM 1955 Birthday Colin Moulding, English pop guitarist, XTC 1955 Birthday "Country" Jem Finer, English banjo player, Pogues-Straight to Hell 1955 Death Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging 1955 Event English harbor strike ends 1955 Birthday Paul O'Grady, English Comedian 1955 Birthday Tim Berners Lee, English Inventor 1955 Birthday Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer, Clash-Complete Control 1955 Birthday Steve Jones, English pop guitarist, Sex Pistols-Mercy 1955 Birthday Buster Mottram, born in Kingston upon Thames, in south-west London, English tennis player, ranked 15th best tennis player in the world, represented Great Britain in Davis Cup eight times 1955 Birthday Charlotte Morrison, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1955 Birthday Lesley Garrett, English Musician 1955 Death Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), dies at 73 1955 Birthday R Jeremy H Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary 1955 Death Joseph McCabe, English Writer 1955 Birthday Mark Hollis, English pop musician, Talk Talk, Dum Dum Girl 1954 Death James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 1954 Death George Edward Robey, English comic/actor (Henry IV), dies at 85 1954 Birthday Guy Innes-Ker duke of Roxburghe, English large landowner 1954 Birthday "Maestro" Jimmy Fearnley, English accordionist, The Pogues 1954 Birthday 7th marquess of Bristol, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1954 Birthday Jon Erikson, U.S., 1st to triple cross English Channel, 1981 1954 Birthday Derek Warwick, born in Alresford, England, racecar driver, at age 16, won Superstox English Championship and age 18, won the World Championship at Wimbledon Stadium 1954 Birthday Joe Jackson, English singer/pianist/composer, The Harder they Come 1954 Birthday Sammy McIlroy, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, soccer player, athlete, played for Manchester United, manages Morecambe Football Club, in Football League Two, the fourth division of English football 1954 Birthday Michael "Nicko" McBain, English hard rock drummer, Iron Maiden-Powerslave 1954 Birthday Tina Charles, English Musician 1954 Birthday Neal Schon, rock guitarist, Journey-Open Arms, Bad English 1954 Death William R Inge, English theologist/philosopher, dies at 93 1954 Death William R. Inge, English Clergyman 1954 Death William Ralph Inge, English Clergyman 1954 Death Dean Inge, English Author 1954 Birthday Edward Ka-spel, English singer and songwriter, Legendary Pink Dots 1954 Birthday Anthony Minghella, director, English Patient 1953 Death Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, dies at 70 1953 Birthday Andy "the Clobberer" Ranken, English pop drummer, The Pogues 1953 Birthday Andy Partridge, English rock vocalist and guitarist, XTC-Oranges and Lemons 1953 Death Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41 1953 Birthday James E Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary 1953 Birthday Peter Greenall, English brewer, Greenall Witley 1953 Death Hilaire Belloc, English Poet 1953 Birthday Henry Lascelles, English grandson of princess Mary 1952 Birthday Clive Anderson, English Entertainer 1952 Death Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies 1952 Birthday Maxine Nightingale, English soul singer 1952 Birthday Andrew Motion, English Poet 1952 Birthday Sharon Osbourne, English Entertainer 1952 Event Gerald D. Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding 1952 Birthday David Icke, English Athlete 1952 Death [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of Plane-manufacturing, dies at 62 1952 Birthday J. D. Nicholas, English guitarist, Heatwave, Commodores 1951 Birthday William Waldorf 4th viscount Astor/English large landowner 1951 Birthday Gerald Grosvenor, English 6th duke of Westminster/billionaire 1951 Event Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes 1951 Birthday Susan Blackmore, English Writer 1951 Birthday David Yip, born in Liverpool, England, of Chinese descent, English actor, played Johnny Ho in The Chinese Detective, played CIA liason agent Chuck Lee in 'A View to a Kill', a 1985 James Bond film 1951 Death Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62 1951 Event British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75 1951 Birthday Everett Morton, rocker, English Beat 1951 Birthday Chris Rea, English rock guitarist, Fool If You Think It Is Over 1951 Birthday Bobby Stokes, born in Portsmouth, England, athlete, English footballer, scored the winning goal in 1976, Southampton F.C. vs. Manchester United, FA Cup Final, in the 83rd-minute, considered biggest upset in FA Cup Final history 1950 Birthday David H G viscount Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary 1950 Birthday Michael Rutherford, English pop bassist, Genesis-Silent Sun 1950 Event Abdel Rehim swims English Channel (10:50) 1950 Event Florence Chadwick swims English Canal (13:23) 1950 Birthday Simon Cadell, English actor, Hi-Di-Hi, Pride and Extreme Prejudice 1950 Birthday Rowan Williams, English Theologian 1950 Birthday Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist, Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes 1949 Birthday Bill Nighy, English Actor 1949 Birthday Nigel Havers, English actor, Dr. Latimer-Don't Wait Up 1949 Birthday Mark Knopfler, English rock vocalist and guitarist, Dire Straits 1949 Birthday Roger Uttley, English rugby player 1949 Birthday Alan White, English rock drummer, Yes, Ramshackled 1949 Birthday Karen English, born in Berkeley, California, Representative-D-Arizona 1993 - 1995 1949 Birthday Fred Frith, English guitarist, violinist and bassist, Skeleton Crew 1949 Birthday David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport 1949 Death Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 1948 Death Malcolm Campbell, English race driver, dies at 63 1948 Birthday Peter Hammill, English singer and songwriter, Patient 1948 Birthday Trevor Brooking, English soccer player 1948 Birthday Robert Plant, English rock vocalist, Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love 1948 Birthday Bill Bruford, English pop drummer, Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis 1948 Birthday Terry Pratchett, English Author 1948 Birthday Terry Prachett, English Author 1948 Birthday Benzion Freshwater, English multi-millionaire 1948 Birthday Lord Egremont, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1948 Birthday Mike Figgis, English Director 1948 Birthday Christopher Moran, English financier/multi-millionaire 1947 Death Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician 1947 Birthday Simon Bates, born in Birmingham, English, UK disc jockey, worked at BBC Radio 1 1976 - 1993, and Classic FM 1947 Death Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies at 80 1947 Birthday Michael Green, English TV/video producer 1947 Death Aleister Crowley, English Critic 1947 Birthday 7th earl of Bradford, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1947 Birthday Keith Moon, English rock drummer, Who-I'm A Boy 1947 Birthday Camilla Parker Bowles, English Celebrity 1947 Birthday Felicity Lott, English soprano, We come to the river 1947 Birthday Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer, Amstrad 1947 Birthday John Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1947 Birthday Dave Mount, born in Carshalton, Surrey, rocker, member of the glam English rock band, Mud 1947 Death Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician 1947 Death Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80 1947 Death Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Wertwissenschaft), dies at 77 1947 Birthday Bryan Robson, English international soccer star 1946 Birthday Polly Toynbee, English Journalist 1946 Event English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2 1946 Birthday Angus Suttie, English potter 1946 Birthday Philip Pullman, English Writer 1946 Death Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer and conductor, dies at 78 1946 Birthday Charles Dance, English Actor 1946 Birthday Tony Greig, South Africa, cricketer, English all-rounder 1972-77 1946 Death James Jeans, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer, dies at 69 1946 Birthday Humphrey Carpenter, English Author 1946 Death H. G. Wells, English Author 1946 Birthday Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO, Saatchi and Saatchi 1946 Birthday Roger Tolchard, cricketer, English keeper played Tests as a batsman 1977 1946 Birthday Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor, TLS 1946 Death John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62 1946 Death John Maynard Keynes, English Economist 1946 Birthday Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper, 1967-81 1946 Birthday Sue Townsend, English Novelist 1946 Death John Clapham, English Economist 1946 Birthday David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing 1946 Birthday Jasper Carrott, English comedian, Jane and the Lost City, Detectives 1946 Birthday Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur/multi-millionaire, Hawley-ADT 1946 Birthday Anthony Daniels, English Actor 1946 Birthday David Green, English TV/video producer 1945 Birthday Peter Storey, English Athlete 1945 Death Margot Asquith, English Author 1945 Birthday Viscount Petersham, English large landowner 1945 Birthday James Rodford, English rock vocalist/bassist, Kinks-Mr Pleasant 1945 Birthday Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire 1945 Birthday Nicky Chinn, English songwriter/producer, Chinn and Chapman 1945 Birthday Bob Henrit, English pop drummer, Kinks-Waterloo Sunset 1945 Death Alfred Douglas, English Poet 1945 Death Charles Williams, English Editor 1945 Birthday Robert Wyatt, English Musician 1945 Birthday Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1945 Birthday David Pleat, English Athlete 1945 Death Betram Home Ramsay, English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61 1944 Birthday Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph 1944 Birthday Jon Anderson, English rock singer, Yes 'Owner of a Lonely Heart' 1944 Death John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Birthday Graham Taylor, English Coach 1944 Birthday Christopher Needler, English sand industrialist, TCG Materials 1944 Birthday Richard A W G, English prince/duke of Gloucester 1944 Birthday Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter, Traffic-Something So Strong 1944 Death Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75 1944 Birthday Dave Morgan, English Celebrity 1944 Birthday Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian/English writer, Price of Bride 1944 Death Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71 1944 Death George A Hartland, English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at 60 1944 Death Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (Centaurs' Booty), dies at 74 1944 Death Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies 1944 Birthday Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire 1944 Event Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. "terror pilots" 1944 Birthday Roger Raised, English actor, Nicholas Nickleby 1944 Birthday Francis Lee, English Athlete 1944 Birthday Roger Daltrey, English rocker, actor, producer, The Who, Tommy 1944 Birthday Alan Parker, English actor, Bugsy Malone, Evita 1944 Birthday Desmond Nuttall, English educator 1944 Birthday John Thornton, English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire 1944 Birthday Eddie Shah, English publisher, Today, Post 1943 Birthday Tatton Sykes, English baron/large landowner 1943 Birthday Albert Lee, born in Leominster, Herefordshire, Grammy-award winning English guitarist, musical director, celebrated finger-style and hybrid picking technique, played with the Crickets 1943 Birthday Joanna Trollope, English Novelist 1943 Birthday Michael Unger, English editor-in-chief, Evening News, Manchester 1943 Birthday Chas Hodges, born in Edmonton, London, rocker, pianist, guitarist, vocalist, member of English duo Chas & Dave, worked with producer Joe Meek, backed Jerry Lee Lewis 1943 Birthday Paul Burnett, English disc-jockey 1943 Birthday Howard Wilkinson, English Coach 1943 Birthday Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer 1943 Birthday Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan 1943 Birthday Denny Payton, saxophonist, harmonica player, guitarist, singer, performed with the Dave Clark Five, English pop rock group 1943 Birthday Charles Saatchi, English magnate, Saatchi and Saatchi 1943 Death Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20 1943 Birthday Tony Banks, English politician, Lab 1943 Birthday Dennis Amiss, cricketer, prolific English batsman 1943 Birthday Gordon Black, English industrialist 1943 Birthday Terry Eagleton, English Critic 1943 Death John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies 1943 Death Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53 1942 Birthday William HAF, English prince/grandson of George V 1942 Birthday Stuart Lipton, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1942 Birthday Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer, Body Shop 1942 Birthday Phil Harris, English carpet manufacturer/multi-millionaire 1942 Birthday Jonathan Aitken, English MP 1942 Death George EAE, English prince/earl of St. Andrews, dies in battle at 39 1942 Death George Sutherland, English Judge 1942 Birthday Michael G C F, English prince of Kent 1942 Birthday Lord McAlpine, English contractor/multi-millionaire 1942 Birthday Gordon Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer, Body Shop 1942 Birthday Brian Jones, Lewis B Hopkin, English pop guitarist, Rolling Stones 1942 Birthday Richard O'Brien, English Actor 1942 Birthday Jon Arthur English, composer 1942 Birthday John Whittaker, English real estate developer, Peel Holdings 1942 Birthday Michael Giles, English Musician 1942 Birthday Susan Hill, English playwright, Magic Apple Tree 1942 Birthday Christine Keeler, English Model 1942 Birthday Stephen Hawking, English physicist, Black Holes and Baby Universes 1941 Birthday Alex Ferguson, English Coach 1941 Birthday Geoffrey Davies, English actor, Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go 1941 Birthday David Wilson, English contractor/multi-millionaire 1941 Birthday Alan Mullery, English soccer player 1941 Birthday James Bowman, English contratenor 1941 Event English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran 1941 Event English and French troop overthrow pro-German Syria 1941 Birthday Alexander Cockburn, English Lawyer 1941 Event English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government 1941 Event English Army breaks German spy codes 1941 Birthday Bobby Moore, English Athlete 1941 Birthday Vivienne Westwood, English Designer 1941 Birthday Richard Dawkins, English Scientist 1941 Birthday Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner 1941 Death Frank Bridge, English violinist and composer (Sea), dies at 61 1941 Birthday John E. Walker, English Scientist 1940 Birthday Jenny Linden, English actress, Hedda, Dr. Who and the Daleks 1940 Birthday Glenn English, born in Cordell, Oklahoma, Representative-D-Oklahoma 1975 - 1994 1940 Event Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends 1940 Birthday Galen Weston, English/Canadian industrial/multi-millionaire 1940 Birthday David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder, Dutch Soc-Dem 1940 Birthday Michael Gambon, English actor, Singing Detective, Paris at Night 1940 Birthday Christopher Timothy, English actor, All Creatures Great and Small 1940 Birthday Cliff Richard, English Musician 1940 Birthday John Lennon, English Musician 1940 Birthday Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire 1940 Event German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters and English and French movies 1940 Death Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64 1940 Birthday Chay Blyth, English sailor, Alone in Order to the World 1940 Birthday Angela Carter, English Novelist 1940 Death Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide), dies 1940 Birthday Eleanor Fount, English actress, Women in Love, Bedazzled 1940 Birthday Jimmy Tarbuck, English comic/golfer 1940 Birthday Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1940 Birthday Trevor Nunn, English Director 1939 Birthday Christopher Wates, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1939 Event Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents 1939 Birthday Pauline Neville-Jones, English diplomat 1939 Event German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard 1939 Birthday Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire 1939 Birthday Tony Budge, English contractor/tank maker/multi-millionaire 1939 Death [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80 1939 Birthday Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist 1939 Birthday Gerald Ronson, English multi-millionaire 1939 Birthday 17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director, Emily 1939 Birthday Jonathan David Harvey, English composer, Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen 1939 Birthday Richard earl of Lichfield, English photographer 1939 Event Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down 1939 Birthday Earl of Seafield, Ginger, English large landowner 1939 Birthday Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire 1939 Event English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire 1939 Birthday Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years 1939 Birthday Rachel English, London, author, My 1st 500 1939 Birthday Cliff Thorburn, English snookers player 1938 Birthday Thomas Black, English industrial/auto collector 1938 Death Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic, dies at 57 1938 Birthday Ann Jones, English Athlete 1938 Death Samuel Alexander, English philosopher (Space, time and deity), dies at 79 1938 Birthday Richard Sharpe, English rugby player 1938 Birthday Alan Coren, born in London, England, English writer, satirist, and humorist, worked with the BBC 1938 Death E. V. Lucas, English Writer 1938 Birthday Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer, UEI, Paintbox 1938 Event English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3 1938 Death Henry Newbolt, English Author 1938 Birthday Wilf Corrigan, English/U.S. electronic manufacturer, LSI Logic 1938 Birthday Alan Lewis, English textile factory/multi-millionaire 1938 Birthday Ivan Twigden, English contractor/multi-millionaire, Twigden PLC 1937 Birthday Gordon Banks, English Athlete 1937 Birthday Stephen Rubin, English attorney/shoe manufacturer, Reebok, Adidas 1937 Death Betty Carver, wife of English Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies 1937 Death Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, English physicist (Nobel 1908), dies 1937 Birthday Bobby Charlton, English soccer player 1937 Birthday Brian Blessed, English actor, King Arthur, High Road to China 1937 Death William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81 1937 Death John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 1937 Death J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73 1937 Birthday Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire 1937 Death Frederick Pollock, English Judge 1936 Birthday Alexandra HEOC, English princess/daughter of sir Angus Ogilvy 1936 Death Edward Bach, English Scientist 1936 Birthday Viscount Mountgarret, Butler, English large landowner 1936 Birthday James H "Simon" Gray, English playwright, Butley 1936 Birthday Judith Chalmers, English TV hostess, Wish You Were Here 1936 Death Frank Hornby, English Inventor 1936 Death Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies 1936 Death Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer 1936 Death Edmond HH Allenby, English Field Marshal in Egypt, dies at 74 1936 Birthday Michael Stone, English broker/multi-millionaire, Man Group 1936 Death A. E. Housman, English Poet 1936 Birthday Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire 1936 Birthday Harold Innocent, HS Harrison, English actor, Tall Guy 1935 Birthday George Carey, English Clergyman 1935 Event English prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott 1935 Event Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series 1935 Birthday Edward GNPP, English prince/duke of Kent 1935 Death Winifred Holtby, English Novelist 1935 Birthday Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader 1935 Birthday Julian Pettifer, English TV-host 1935 Birthday Lord Peter Palumbo, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1935 Birthday Kenneth Kleinwort, English banker/multi-millionaire 1935 Birthday David John Lodge, English writer, Soul and Bodies 1935 Birthday Raymond Briggs, English author, Fungus the Bogeyman 1934 Event English King George V weds princess Marina of Greece/Denmark 1934 Birthday Kenneth Baker, English Politician 1934 Birthday Piers Anthony, English Writer 1934 Birthday Edward Bond, English playwright/director, Blow-up 1934 Death Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72 1934 Death Gustav Theodore Holst, English composer (Ode to Death), dies at 59 1934 Birthday John K. Barlow, English rubberplanter/financier/multi-millionaire 1934 Birthday John Lelliott, English contractor and multi-millionaire 1934 Death Edward William Elgar, English composer (Coronation Ode), dies at 76 1934 Event 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1933 Birthday Frank Brake, English multi-millionaire 1933 Death Augustine Birrell, English Author 1933 Birthday Bill Tidy, English cartoonist, Fosdyke Saga 1933 Birthday Fay Weldon, English Novelist 1933 Death Annie Besant, English theosophy (Esoteric Christianity), dies 1933 Birthday David Rowland, English real estate developer/broker/multi-millionaire 1933 Birthday Michael Frayn, English Playwright 1933 Death Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies 1933 Birthday Richard Rogers, English architect 1933 Birthday Thelma Barlow, English actress, Mavis-Coronation Street 1933 Birthday Barbara Taylor Bradford, English Novelist 1933 Birthday Robin Phillips, English multi-millionaire manufacturer, hand-dryer 1933 Birthday John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1933 Birthday Leslie Crowther, English TV-comic/quizmaster 1933 Birthday Les Dawson, English Comedian 1933 Birthday David Bellamy, English botanist/tv-program maker 1932 Birthday Colin Cowdrey, English cricket player 1932 Death Paul S Methuen, English baron/Field Marshal/Governor of Natal, dies at 87 1932 Birthday Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left 1932 Birthday Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist 1932 Event 200,000 English textile workers strike 1932 Birthday John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire 1932 Death Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies 1932 Birthday Jenny Joseph, English Poet 1932 Birthday Viscount Coke, English large landowner/art collector 1932 Birthday Angela Mortimer, English tennis player, Wimbledon 1932 Birthday Janet Bately, Professor of English Language, King's College London 1932 Birthday Everard Goodman, English real estate developer, TOPS Estates 1932 Birthday Jocelyn Stevens, CEO, English Heritage 1932 Birthday Derek Bailey, English Musician 1931 Birthday Ian Skipper, English businessman/multi-millionaire, Heritage Projects 1931 Birthday Dickie Jeeps, English rugby international/chairman Sports Council 1931 Birthday Anthony Jacobs, English industrialist, BSM 1931 Birthday Tommy Greenhough, cricketer, English leg-spinner in 4 Tests 1959-60 1931 Birthday David Bryant, English world champion bowler/tv-host 1931 Birthday Ken Morrison, English supermarket maginate/multi-millionaire 1931 Birthday John Le Carre, English Author 1931 Birthday Roger Penrose, English Physicist 1931 Birthday Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies 1931 Birthday Lord Clinton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1931 Birthday "Against Iain" duke of Atholl, English large landowner 1931 Birthday Ronald Hynd, British choreographer, English National Ballet 1931 Birthday Evelyn de Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire 1931 Birthday Fred Trueman, Fiery Fred, English cricket player 1931 Birthday Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer, Stop the world I want to get off 1931 Birthday Peter Barnes, English Playwright 1930 Birthday Robert Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire, St. Ives 1930 Birthday Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO, Hambros 1930 Event Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season 1930 Death Robert Bridges, English Poet 1930 Birthday W Hambleden Smith, English newspaper magnate 1930 Birthday Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1930 Birthday John Gilpin, English ballet dancer, Etudes, Alice in Wonderland 1930 Birthday Bernard Matthews, English turkey farmer/multi-millionaire 1930 Birthday Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader 1929 Birthday Peter May, cricketer, dashing English batsman of 50's 1929 Death Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies 1929 Birthday Graham Roberts, English Actor 1929 Birthday George Carman, English Lawyer 1929 Birthday 10th duke of Richmond, English large landowner/art collector 1929 Birthday Timothy Colman, English manufacturer/multi-millionaire, Reckitt and Colman 1929 Birthday Al Alvarez, English Poet 1929 Birthday Michael Medwin, English actor, Four in a Jeep, Scrooge, Checkpoint 1929 Death Edward Carpenter, English Activist 1929 Birthday Ian Prestt, English ornithologist 1929 Birthday George Steiner, professor, English 1929 Birthday Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author, Ipcress File, Fighter 1929 Birthday Keith Waterhouse, English writer, Billy Liar, Say Who Are You? 1929 Death Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77 1928 Event Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro flight over English Channel 1928 Birthday Angus Ogilvy, son of English princess Alexandra 1928 Birthday Bernard Levin, English Journalist 1928 Birthday Ken Scowcroft, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire 1928 Death Ellen Terry, English Actress 1928 Birthday Evelyn Anthony, English historical writer, Poellenberg Inheritance 1928 Death Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist, dies 1928 Birthday John Keith Wright, English economist and Assistant Secretary of State, 1971 - 1984 1928 Death William HT Gairdner, English missionary (Nile Mission Press), dies at 54 1928 Birthday Colin Chapman, English Inventor 1928 Death Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63 1928 Birthday Tom Sharpe, English historian/author, Riotous Assembly, Want 1928 Birthday 11th duke of Beaufort, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1928 Birthday Desmond Morris, English zoologist, Human Ape, Body Language 1928 Birthday Harry Hyams, English immovable goods owner, Center Point 1927 Birthday Simon Raven, English playwright/critic, Alms for Oblivion 1927 Birthday John Britton, English Mathematician 1927 Birthday Lord Wolfson, English multi-millionaire 1927 Birthday John Sainsbury, English billionaire 1927 Birthday Don Revie, English soccer coach, Leeds, National team 1927 Birthday Thomas W. "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman, 50's and 60's 1927 Death Jerome K. Jerome, English Author 1927 Birthday Lord Bathurst, English earl/large landowner/multi-millionaire 1927 Birthday Garfield Weston, English industrial/billionaire, Twinings Tea 1927 Birthday Kenneth Tynan, English Critic 1926 Birthday Alan Owen, English author, Maggie May, Ronnie Barker Show 1926 Birthday Bernard Ashley, English fashion designer/president, Laura Ashley 1926 Event New York's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel 1926 Birthday Richard Pasco, English actor, Gorgon, Arch of Triumph 1926 Birthday Elizabeth Jennings, English Poet 1926 Birthday Ian Gilmour, English Politician 1926 Birthday Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature 1926 Birthday Queen Elizabeth II, English Royalty 1926 Birthday 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner 1926 Birthday Jean Alexander, English Actress 1926 Birthday Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire, Octopus 1926 Birthday Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author, Change of Use 1925 Birthday June Whitfield, English Actress 1925 Birthday W Howard Baker, English publisher 1925 Birthday Viscount Rothermere, English press magnate, Daily Mail, Evening News 1925 Death Francis Darwin, English Scientist 1925 Birthday Len Jagger, English businessman/multi-millionaire 1925 Birthday Peter Foy, English Actor 1925 Death Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies 1925 Death H. Rider Haggard, English Writer 1925 Birthday Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet, Capricorn 1925 Birthday John Wain, English Poet 1925 Death Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, dies at 88 1925 Birthday Leslie Silver, English paint manufacturer/multi-millionaire 1925 Birthday Nina [Mary] Bawden, English author, Afternoon of a Good Woman 1925 Birthday James Saunders, English chemist/playwright, Ark 1924 Birthday Peter Prowtiny, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1924 Birthday George Sewell, English Actor 1924 Birthday Gerald D Lascelles, son of English princess Mary 1924 Birthday Arnold Weinstock, English industrial/multi-millionaire, GEC 1924 Death Cecil [James] Sharp, English folk musician, dies at 64 1924 Birthday Jackie Milburn, English soccer star, Newcastle United 1924 Death George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies 1924 Death Marie Corelli, English Writer 1924 Birthday Anthony Caro, English Sculptor 1924 Death Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62 1924 Birthday Billy Wright, English soccer player 1924 Birthday 8th earl Spencer, English large landowner/father of Diane 1924 Birthday 7th earl of Carnarvon, English large landowner 1923 Death Andrew Bonar Law, English Prime Minister (C), dies at 64 1923 Birthday Murray Walker, English Entertainer 1923 Birthday Jack Dellal, English immovables-goedbezitter/multi-millionaire 1923 Birthday Harry JN Vane 11th Lord Barnard, English large landowner 1923 Event Enrico Tiraboschi is 1st to swim English Channel westward 1923 Event 1st American to swim English Channel, Henry Sullivan 1923 Birthday Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire 1923 Birthday Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire 1923 Birthday Lord Gordon "Gordy" White, English industrialist/multi-millionaire 1923 Event English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 1923 Birthday John Mortimer, English Novelist 1923 Birthday John Smith, English large landowner/financier/MP, C 1923 Birthday George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader, Covent Garden 1922 Birthday Earl of Lonsdale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1922 Birthday Viscount Allendale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1922 Birthday Sidney AK Keyes, English poet, Iron Laurel 1922 Event Dr. Ivy Williams is 1st woman to be called to the English Bar 1922 Birthday Kingsley Amis, English Novelist 1922 Birthday John Braine, English novelist, Life at the Top 1922 Event English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles 1922 Birthday Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords, Conservative 1922 Birthday Neville Duke, English test pilot 1921 Birthday John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian, Pre-Raphaelite painter 1921 Death Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet 1921 Birthday 12th Lord Middleton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1921 Birthday Countess of Sutherland, English great land owner/multi-millionaire 1920 Birthday Vaino Linna, born in Urjala, Finland, author, wrote Finnish books, Under the North Star translated into English by Richard Impola 1920 Birthday George Porter, English Scientist 1920 Death Hudson Stuck, English Explorer 1920 Birthday [Thomas] Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper, 1950's 1920 Death J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies 1920 Birthday Derry Jeffares, Honorary Professor of English Studies, Stirling U 1920 Birthday P. D. James, English Novelist 1920 Birthday Isobel June Braybrooke English, novellist 1920 Birthday Anthony Storr, born in London, England, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression' 1920 Birthday Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer, folding bicycle 1920 Birthday Marjorie M Sweeting, English geomorphologist 1920 Birthday Frank Muir, English Writer 1920 Birthday Derek Worlock, English RC archbishop, Liverpool 1920 Birthday John Maynard Smith, English Scientist 1920 Birthday Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector 1919 Birthday Peter Strawson, English philosopher 1919 Death Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30 1919 Death Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies 1919 Birthday Jon Pertwee, English comic/actor, Dr. Who, Worzel Gummidge 1919 Birthday Arthur English, comedian/actor, Malachi's Cove 1919 Death William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe), dies at 86 1919 Birthday Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool 1919 Death John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13 1918 Birthday Kirby Laing, English contractor/multi-millionaire 1918 Birthday Roley Jenkins, cricketer, English leg-spinner 1948-52 1918 Death C Hubert H Parry, English musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 1918 Event CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state 1918 Death Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I), dies at 36 1918 Birthday Florence Chadwick, swimmer, 1st to swim English Channel both ways 1918 Death Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet 1918 Birthday Lord Maxd Rayne, English broker/multi-millionaire 1918 Birthday Ted Willis, prolific English screenwriter, It's Great to be Young 1917 Birthday Earl of Inchcape, English large landowner/industrialist, P&O 1917 Birthday Ram Gopal, Indies/English dancer, Blue Peter, Purple Plain 1917 Birthday Robert Adams, English sculptor 1917 Birthday George Mann, captain English cricket team 1917 Birthday Denis Healey, English politician 1917 Birthday Robert Conquest, English author, Back to Life 1917 Birthday Reg Smyth, English cartoonist, Andy Capp 1917 Death Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and director (Hamlet), dies 1917 Death Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle, dies at 70 1917 Event English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch 1917 Death Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75 1917 Birthday Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire 1917 Death Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 1916 Birthday Penelope Fitzgerald, English Poet 1916 Birthday Lilian Baels, English 2nd wife of Belgian king Leopold III 1916 Birthday Peter Shepherd, English contractor/multi-millionaire 1916 Death Benjamin Kidel, English sociologist (Social Evolution), dies at 58 1916 Birthday Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, English landowner 1916 Birthday Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker 1916 Death Francis W. Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies 1916 Death Edward D Pain, English journalist (New York World), dies in battle at 36 1916 Birthday Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor 1916 Birthday Harold Wilson, English Statesman 1916 Birthday Gavin Buchanan Ewart, English poet, Pleasures of the Flesh 1915 Death Henry Longbottom, English lieutenant, dies in battle 1915 Birthday Maurice Laing, English contractor/multi-millionaire 1915 Birthday Anthony Cox, English architect 1915 Birthday 8th duke of Wellington, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1915 Birthday Viscount Leverhulm, English large landowner, Unilever 1915 Death Harry Banks, English Soldier 1915 Death Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27 1915 Death Rupert Brooke, English Poet 1915 Birthday Norman Yardley, English cricket captain, late 40's 1915 Death Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69 1914 Death Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle 1914 Event Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts 1914 Event German fleet bombs English coast 1914 Birthday Jan de Hartog, Dutch/English writer, Holland's Glory 1914 Birthday Henry Reed, English Writer 1914 Birthday Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher, Puffin Club 1914 Birthday Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian 1913 Birthday John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian 1913 Birthday Robert Dougall, English TV host 1913 Birthday Thelma Hulbert, English painter, Le Sacre du Printemps 1913 Birthday Fred Davis, English world champ snooker player, 1948-49, 51 1913 Birthday Ralph Hammond Innes, English author 1913 Birthday George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer, Serf, John Socman 1913 Birthday Trevor Huddleston, English pastor/chairman, Anti-Apartheid 1913 Birthday Kenneth Horne, English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire 1913 Birthday Cyril English, British educator 1913 Death Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58 1913 Birthday George G Barker, English poet, Calamiterror, Anno Domini 1913 Birthday Percy Thrower, English radio host 1912 Birthday Howard de Walden, English landowner/multi-millionaire 1912 Death William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies 1912 Event Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel 1912 Death William Thomas Stead, English Journalist 1912 Death George Grossmith, English Actor 1912 Death Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies 1912 Birthday Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire 1912 Birthday Christopher Hill, English Historian 1912 Birthday John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian 1912 Birthday William "Bill" Henson, English diplomat, Prague 1939 1912 Event English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before 1912 Birthday William Sansom, English writer, Loving Eye 1911 Birthday Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire 1911 Birthday Peter Saunders, English theater producer, Legend of the Werewolf 1911 Death Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies 1911 Birthday Juliet Pannett, English portrait painter 1911 Death William Schwenck Gilbert, English writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at 74 1911 Birthday Norman Oldfield, cricketer, English batsman one Test vs. WI 1939, 80 and 19 1911 Birthday J. L. Austin, English Philosopher 1911 Death Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67 1911 Death Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88 1910 Birthday Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader 1910 Birthday Donald Coggan, English archbishop of York/Canterbury, Glory of God 1910 Death Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 90 1910 Birthday Jacquetta Hawker, English archaeologist/author, A Country 1910 Death Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Australia 1886-88), dies 1910 Event 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel, C S Rolls, England 1910 Death Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 1910 Death Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37 1910 Birthday Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker 1910 Event English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra" 1910 Birthday 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector 1910 Birthday George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager, Brentford 1909 Birthday Stephen Spender, English Poet 1909 Event English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill 1909 Birthday Malcolm Lowry, English novelist, Under the Volcano 1909 Event France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel 1909 Birthday Fred Perry, English tennis star/commentator, Wimbledon, 1934-36 1909 Death George Meredith, English poet and writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81 1909 Birthday Karen Armstrong, English Writer 1909 Birthday Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer, That Infidel Place 1909 Birthday Richard Howorth, cricketer, English all-rounder, three county doubles 1909 Death Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72 1909 Birthday Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor, Phoenix 1909 Birthday Hugh Murphy, English multi-millionaire 1909 Birthday Kenneth W. Howell, English Anglican bishop, Chile/Bolivia/Peru 1909 Birthday Marguerite Kelsey, English model/painter, Haunting 1908 Birthday Quentin Crisp, English Writer 1908 Birthday Nigel M Balchin, Mark Spade, English author, Business for Pleasure 1908 Death John Churton Collins, English Critic 1908 Birthday James "Jimmy" Johnson, English Labor MP, 1950-59, 64-83 1908 Birthday Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist 1908 Birthday Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author, Daily Express 1908 Death Peter Oliver, English Artist 1908 Birthday Winston Graham, English Novelist 1908 Death Redvers H Buller, English general, dies at 68 1908 Birthday Peter Oliver, English Artist 1908 Death Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer 1908 Birthday Thomas Cavendish, English Explorer 1908 Death John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68 1908 Birthday Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart' 1908 Birthday Lord Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar 1907 Event English Professional Football Player's Association forms 1907 Birthday Christian J H English, Luc Tournier, Netherlands/Curacaos painter/composer 1907 Death Francis Thompson, English Poet 1907 Death Gerald Massey, English Poet 1907 Death Richard de Bury, English Writer 1907 Birthday Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author 1907 Birthday Richard de Bury, English Writer 1907 Birthday James Meade, English Economist 1907 Birthday Frank Whittle, English Inventor 1907 Birthday Daphne du Maurier, English writer, Rebecca, Parasites 1907 Birthday Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer, Enter the Saint 1907 Birthday Kenneth Muir, English scholar 1907 Birthday Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian, Stalin/Trotsky biography 1907 Event English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested 1907 Birthday Henry Cotton, English golf champion, won 3x British Open 1907 Birthday Henry Cotton, English golfer, British Open 1934, 1937, 1948 1907 Birthday Dixie Dean, English Athlete 1906 Birthday Lord Margadale, English Conserv parliament leader/large landowner 1906 Birthday Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/husband of English prince George 1906 Birthday 13th earl of Stair, English Lt-colonel/large landowner 1906 Birthday William Empson, English poet and critic, Milton's God 1906 Birthday John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984, Mount Zion 1906 Birthday Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist 1906 Birthday Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English, Bedford College 1906 Birthday Alan J P Taylor, British historian, English history 1914-1915 1906 Birthday H Algernon F "Algy" Rumbold, English diplomat, South Africa/Tibet 1906 Event English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured 1905 Birthday Henry Green, English Novelist 1905 Death Henry Irving, John H Brodribb, English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67 1905 Birthday Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer, Red Shoes 1905 Birthday John C F, son of English King George V 1905 Birthday Ashley Montague, English Scientist 1905 Birthday Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic, Byron in Italy 1905 Birthday Rex Warner, English poet and writer, Wild Goose Chase 1905 Birthday Peter Quennell, English Writer 1905 Birthday Oliver Franks, English Public Servant 1905 Birthday Marquess of Bath, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1905 Birthday Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer and conductor, Child of our Time 1904 Birthday Nancy Mitford, English author, Love in a cold climate 1904 Birthday Michael Ramsey, English Clergyman 1904 Death Dan Leno, English Comedian 1904 Death Isabella Bird, English Writer 1904 Birthday Graham Greene, English journalist, 3rd Man 1904 Death William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Secretary of State, dies at 76 1904 Birthday Bergen Evans, Ohio, English professor, $64,000 Question 1904 Birthday Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector 1904 Death Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies 1904 Birthday C. Day Lewis, English Poet 1903 Death George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46 1903 Birthday Evelyn Waugh, English Author 1903 Birthday Lord Roborough, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 1903 Birthday Cyril Connolly, English Journalist 1903 Birthday Walter Hammond, cricketer, one of the greatest of English batsman 1903 Birthday Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer, Observer of Life 1903 Death Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68 1903 Birthday Barbara Hepworth, English abstract sculptor/actress, Rescued by Rover 1902 Birthday George EAE, English prince/earl of St. Andrews 1902 Birthday Allen Lane, English publisher/founder, Penguin Books 1902 Death Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet), dies at 75 1902 Death Philip James Bailey, English poet (Universal hymn), dies at 86 1902 Birthday Roy Armstrong, English historian, History of Sussex 1902 Birthday Dilys Powell, English writer, Descent from Parnassus 1902 Death John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69 1902 Death John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 1902 Birthday Megan Lloyd George, English politician 1902 Birthday David Cecil, English Writer 1902 Birthday Arthur D Nock, English/U.S. historian, St. Paul 1902 Birthday Eric Liddell, China, English 400m runner 1924 Olympics gold 1902 Birthday Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, Cold Comfort Farm 1901 Birthday Michael Oakeshott, English Philosopher 1901 Death Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55 1901 Death Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian 1901 Birthday George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese 1901 Birthday Joe Davis, English snooker/billiards-world champ, 1927-46 1901 Death Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian, dies at 57 1900 Birthday James Hilton, English novelist, Goodbye Mr. Chips 1900 Death Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies 1900 Birthday Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer and actress, Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow 1900 Birthday James Sutherland, English literature scholar/actor, Rob Roy 1953 1900 Birthday Elizabeth Goudge, English Writer 1900 Birthday Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer, Fiction as Truth 1900 Birthday Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters 1900 Event Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa 1900 Death Ernest Dowson, English Poet 1900 Birthday Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor, Miss Jones and Son 1900 Birthday Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist, Fly Me to the Moon 1900 Event Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed 1900 Death John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81 1900 Death Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74 1900 Death James Martineau, English Philosopher 1899 Death James Paget, English surgeon (disease of Paget), dies at 85 1899 Event English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up 1899 Birthday John Barbirolli, English conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1899 Birthday C. S. Forester, English Novelist 1899 Death Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76 1899 Birthday Arthur Bryant, English historian, King Charles II 1899 Death George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies 1899 Birthday Max Theiler, English/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951 1899 Birthday Granville English, composer 1898 Birthday C. S. Lewis, English Author 1898 Death John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies 1898 Death George Muller, English Clergyman 1898 Birthday Beverley Nichols, English Writer 1898 Birthday Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, Mimi, Rembrandt 1898 Birthday Winifred Holtby, English Novelist 1898 Death Samuel Plimsoll, English MP ( Folkestone), dies at 74 1898 Birthday Sybil Andrews, English/Canadian painter 1898 Birthday Joyce Carey, English actress, Black Windmill 1898 Death Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23 1898 Birthday William Thomas Astbury, English physicist/chemist, textiles 1898 Birthday Neville Pearson, English publisher 1897 Birthday Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet and author, People's Palace 1897 Birthday Aneurin Bevan, English Politician 1897 Death Francis W. Newman, English Writer 1897 Death Jean Ingelow, English Poet 1897 Birthday Norbert Elias, English/Dutch philosopher, Process of Civilization 1897 Birthday John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951 1897 Birthday VAA Mary, English princess 1897 Birthday Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader 1897 Death James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician 1896 Birthday Edmund Blunden, English poet and critic, Undertones of War 1896 Death John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 1896 Birthday Richard N Gale, English general/airborne commander, Normandy 1896 Birthday Harry Banks, English Soldier 1895 Birthday Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F 1895 Birthday Henry Williamson, English Author 1895 Birthday Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author, An American Verdict 1895 Death Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies 1895 Death Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist 1895 Death Thomas Huxley, English Scientist 1895 Birthday Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer, Spitfire 1895 Birthday Malcolm Sargent, English conductor, Promenade Concerts 1894 Death Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 45 1894 Death Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist 1894 Birthday King Edward VIII, English Royalty 1894 Birthday Ben Nicholson, English painter and sculptor, Circle 1894 Death Charles Bowen, English Judge 1894 Birthday Gerald Brenan, English writer 1894 Birthday Dora Russell, English Celebrity 1894 Death Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49 1894 Birthday Harold MacMillan, English Politician 1893 Death Samuel White Baker, English explorer, dies at 72 1893 Birthday Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893 Birthday Christopher K Ingold, English chemist 1893 Event English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit 1893 Birthday Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader, 1945-.. 1893 Birthday Stanley Lupino, English comic, Cheer Up, Over She Goes 1893 Birthday Ivor A "I A" Richards, English poet and critic, Meaning of Meaning, 1893 Birthday Freya Stark, English explorist/author 1892 Birthday Rebecca West, Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author 1892 Birthday Rebecca West, Cicily I F Andrews, English author, Meaning of Treason 1892 Death Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 1892 Birthday John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean 1892 Death Alfred Lord Tennyson, English Poet 1892 Birthday Edward V Appleton, English physicist, Appleton-layer 1892 Birthday Diana Cooper, English Celebrity 1892 Death Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83 1892 Birthday Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario, Crazy Passage Show 1892 Death William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75 1892 Death John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies 1892 Birthday J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist, Lord of Rings 1892 Death George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90 1891 Death Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator, dies at 78 1891 Birthday James Chadwick, English physicist, discovered neutron 1891 Birthday Ellen Wilkinson, English Politician 1891 Death Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45 1891 Birthday Stanley Spencer, English Artist 1891 Birthday Michael Polany, Hungarian and English,chemist, economist and sociologist 1891 Birthday Storm Jameson, English novelist, The Green Man, Cousin Honore 1890 Birthday Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet 1890 Death Richard Francis Burton, English Writer 1890 Death John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89 1890 Birthday Leslie Banks, English actor and director, Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours 1890 Birthday Ronald Fisher, English Mathematician 1889 Death Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61 1889 Death Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77 1889 Birthday Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel 1932 1889 Death Edwin Hatch, English Theologian 1889 Death William W. Collins, English writer (Moonstone), dies 1889 Death Eliza Cook, English Poet 1889 Death Wilkie Collins, English Novelist 1889 Birthday Bruce F Cummings, English author, Journal of a Disappointed Man 1889 Birthday [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of airplane manufacturing, 1942 - 1945 1889 Birthday Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher, Roman Britain 1889 Birthday Robin G. Collingwood, English Philosopher 1888 Birthday Eric Blore, English/US actor, Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad 1888 Birthday Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron 1888 Death Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45 1888 Death Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45 1888 Death William Chappell, English Writer 1888 Birthday Sydney Horler, English detective writer 1888 Death Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 1888 Event English Football League established 1888 Birthday Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher 1888 Birthday Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer, Viaduct Murder 1888 Birthday Ronald Knox, English Theologian 1888 Death Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian 1887 Death Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist 1887 Birthday Edith Sitwell, English poet and author, Wheels 1887 Death Henry Mayhew, English Journalist 1887 Birthday James D Innes, English painter 1887 Death Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 1886 Birthday Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author, Good Behaviour 1886 Death Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29 1886 Birthday Edward Bach, English Scientist 1886 Birthday Charles Williams, English Editor 1886 Birthday Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet and writer, Counterattack 1886 Birthday Siegfried Sassoon, English Poet 1886 Event English Salisbury government forms 1886 Death Henry Taylor, English Dramatist 1885 Death James Hannington, English missionary, murdered in Uganda 1885 Birthday Lionel Atwill, English/U.S. actor, Mystery of the Wax Museum 1885 Death Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle 1884 Birthday James Elroy Flecker, English poet/dramatist, Hassan 1884 Birthday Godfrey Tearle, English/US actor, 39 Steps 1884 Death George Bentham, English Scientist 1884 Death Henry James Byron, English Dramatist 1884 Birthday Charles Dodd, English new testament authority 1884 Death Richard Henry Horne, English Poet 1884 Death Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet 1884 Event 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published 1884 Birthday Arthur Ransome, English author, Swallows and Amazons 1883 Event English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) 1883 Birthday Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, St. John's Gospel 1883 Event Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion 1883 Death Matthew Webb, English Channel swimmer, drowns above Niagara Falls 1883 Birthday Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces 1882 Death Anthony Trollope, English Author 1882 Birthday Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter, Tarr, Apes of God 1882 Event Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket" 1882 Birthday Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler, WW I 1882 Death Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne], English artist (David Cupperfield), dies 1882 Birthday John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright, Abraham Lincoln 1882 Death Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet/painter, dies at 53 1882 Birthday Alan Alexander Milne, English author, Winnie-the-Pooh 1882 Birthday Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist 1882 Birthday A. A. Milne, English Author 1882 Death William H Ainsworth, English writer (Guy Fawkes), dies at 76 1882 Death William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist 1881 Death George Edmund Street, English Architect 1881 Birthday Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh Dutch/MP 1881 Birthday Clive Bell, English Critic 1881 Birthday Daniel Jones, England phoneticist, English pronouncing dictionary 1881 Birthday Ethel Mary Dell, English author, Storm Drift 1881 Birthday Emilie Rose Macaulay, English writer 1881 Death Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies 1881 Death George Linnaeus Banks, English Writer 1881 Birthday Daisy Ashford, born in Petersham, England, English witer, wrote 'The Young Sisters' 1881 Birthday Mary Webb, English Novelist 1881 Birthday Eleanor Farjeon, English writer, Martin Pippin 1881 Birthday Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic, Revaluations 1880 Birthday Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf 1880 Death William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies 1879 Birthday Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author, Heroic Suite 1879 Birthday John N Ireland, English composer/pianist, Mai-Dun 1879 Birthday George Gunn, cricketer, elegant English batsman 1907-30 1879 Birthday L. Patrick Abercrombie, English architect 1879 Birthday Colin Blythe, cricketer, outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I 1879 Birthday W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker 1879 Event Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia and English 1879 Death Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet 1879 Birthday William Beveridge, English Economist 1879 Death William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician 1879 Birthday Frank Bridge, English violinist, composer and conductor /tutor of B Britten 1879 Birthday Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher, Mind and the Eye 1879 Birthday Edward M. Forster, English Novelist 1879 Birthday E. M. Forster, English Novelist 1878 Birthday Mark N Tod, English classicist/historian 1878 Birthday Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer 1878 Death George Backing, English sea officer/explorer (B's River), dies at 81 1878 Death Anna Sewell, English Writer 1878 Death William Banting, English undertaker, dies 1878 Birthday Edward Thomas, English Poet 1878 Death George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85 1877 Birthday Arthur C Pigou, English economist, Wealth and welfare 1877 Birthday Frederick Soddy, English Scientist 1877 Death Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51 1877 Death Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 58 1876 Death Titus Salt, English Businessman 1876 Death George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36 1876 Death Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46 1876 Death Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old 1876 Birthday Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria 1875 Death Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer 1875 Birthday Aleister Crowley, English Critic 1875 Event Matthew Webb becomes 1st to swim English Channel, 21h 45m 1875 Birthday Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English Journalist 1875 Death Charles Kingsley, English vicar/writer (Westward Ho!), dies at 55 1875 Birthday Thomas Hicks, English/U.S. marathon runner:, Olympics gold 1904 1874 Birthday Norman Angell, Lane, English cowboy/journalist, Nobel 1933 1874 Birthday Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer 1874 Event Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier 1874 Birthday Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, English bishop 1873 Birthday G E Moore, English philosopher, Ethics 1873 Birthday George Edward Moore, English Philosopher 1873 Birthday George P Gooch, English historian/MP 1873 Birthday John Clapham, English Economist 1873 Birthday Guy Standing, English actor, Cradle Song 1873 Birthday Harold Bauer, English/US pianist, Beethoven-Association 1873 Death Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43 1873 Birthday Boyd Alexander, English explorer 1872 Birthday Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel 1872 Birthday Alexander Meiklejohn, English Philosopher 1872 Death Henry Alford, English Clergyman 1871 Death Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78 1871 Birthday John Fabricius, Netherlands/English stageauthor, Ring of Prophet 1871 Death Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns 1871 Event English - U.S. treaty ends Alabama dispute 1871 Death Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old 1870 Birthday Alfred Douglas, English Poet 1870 Birthday Hilaire Belloc, English Poet 1870 Death Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield), dies at 58 1869 Birthday Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher, Theory of the Dialects 1869 Birthday Henry J. Wood, English conductor, Gentle Art of Singing, Proms 1869 Birthday Charles Wilson, English physicist, Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel 1868 Birthday Ernest Newman, English Critic 1868 Birthday Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor, Hebridean Symphony 1868 Birthday E. V. Lucas, English Writer 1867 Birthday Joseph McCabe, English Writer 1867 Birthday Ernest Dowson, English Poet 1867 Birthday Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic, Fiery Particles 1866 Birthday Roger Fry, English Artist 1866 Birthday Frederick Frost Blackman, English botanist 1866 Birthday Richard Le Gallienne, English writer, Maker of Gainborg 1865 Death Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 80 1864 Death John Leech, English Artist 1864 Birthday Barry E Odell Pain, English writer, Punch 1864 Event Confederate cruiser The Georgia sold to The English 1864 Death John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70 1864 Birthday Margot Asquith, English Author 1864 Death Adelaide Anne Procter, English Poet 1863 Death William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist 1863 Birthday Arthur Quiller-Couch, Q, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1863 Birthday Hudson Stuck, English Explorer 1863 Death Richard Whately, English Writer 1863 Birthday Frank Hornby, English Inventor 1862 Death Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49 1862 Birthday Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet 1862 Birthday Henry Newbolt, English Author 1862 Birthday Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/minister of Foreign affairs 1862 Birthday George Sutherland, English Judge 1861 Death George HG earl of Aberdeen, English minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76 1861 Birthday Edmond H H Allenby, English Field Marshal/high director, Egypt 1861 Birthday William Bateson, English biologist, originator of term "genetics" 1861 Death Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet 1861 Birthday Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician/philosopher, Adv of Ideas 1861 Event English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships 1860 Birthday Dan Leno, English Comedian 1860 Death Thomas Cochrane, English Politician 1860 Death Thomas Addison, English physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67 1860 Birthday William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St. Paul's Cathedral 1860 Birthday William R. Inge, English Clergyman 1860 Birthday William Ralph Inge, English Clergyman 1860 Birthday Dean Inge, English Author 1860 Birthday Walter Richard Sickert Munich, Danish/English painter, The Miner 1860 Birthday William James Ashley, English economic-historian 1860 Death Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69 1859 Death Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies 1859 Birthday Francis Thompson, English Poet 1859 Death Thomas De Quincey, English Author 1859 Death Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity 1859 Death James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Writer 1859 Birthday Jerome K. Jerome, English Author 1859 Birthday A. E. Housman, English Poet 1859 Birthday Samuel Alexander, English philosopher, Moral order and progress 1858 Birthday Emmeline Pankhurst-Goulden, English feminist 1858 Birthday Benjamin Kidel, English Sudan, Control of the Tropics 1857 Birthday George Gissing, English author, Thyrza, Crown of Life 1857 Birthday Bobby Peel, cricketer, great English lefty 1884-96 1857 Birthday Fred[erick J] Archer, English jockey, won 5 Derbys 1856 Birthday H. Rider Haggard, English Writer 1856 Death David Cox, English painter (Treatise on Landscape Paint), dies at 73 1856 Birthday William M. Conway, English historian and explorer, Spitzbergen 1856 Birthday E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince 1855 Birthday Marie Corelli, English Writer 1855 Death Charlotte Bronte, English author 'Jane Eyre', dies at 38 1855 Death Mary Russell Mitford, English playwright and poet (Julian), dies at 67 1855 Death Julius Charles Hare, English Clergyman 1854 Death John G Lockhart, scorpion, English biographer, dies at 60 1854 Birthday Adam Sedgwick, Norwich England, English zoologist, Peripatus 1854 Event English/French assault on Petropavlovsk Kamchatka 1854 Event English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast 1853 Death William Jay, English Clergyman 1853 Death Frederick William Robertson, English Clergyman 1853 Birthday Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor/theater director, Kathleen 1851 Death J. M. W. Turner, English Artist 1851 Birthday Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright, Judah 1851 Birthday Arthur J Evans, English archaeologist, Crete 1850 Death William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87 1850 Birthday Augustine Birrell, English Author 1849 Death William Etty, English painter (nudist), dies at 62 1849 Birthday John Godden, English explorer, Curacao 1849 Birthday William Thomas Stead, English Journalist 1849 Death Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 1848 Death Emily Bronte, English Novelist 1848 Birthday Francis Darwin, English Scientist 1848 Death Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies 1848 Birthday John Churton Collins, English Critic 1847 Birthday George Grossmith, English Actor 1847 Birthday George Robert Sims, English Journalist 1847 Birthday Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader, English women's movement 1847 Birthday Ellen Terry, English Actress 1846 Event Mormons found 1st English settlement in California (San Joaquin Valley) 1846 Birthday Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member 1846 Event Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire 1846 Birthday Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle 1845 Birthday Frederick Pollock, English Judge 1845 Birthday Paul S Methuen, English Field Marshal/governor of Natal/Malta 1845 Birthday Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker 1845 Death Richard Harris Barham, English Comedian 1845 Birthday William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician 1845 Death Thomas Hood, English Poet 1844 Birthday Robert Bridges, English Poet 1844 Death Francis Baily, English astronomer/mathematician (Baily's Beads), dies 1844 Birthday Edward Carpenter, English Activist 1844 Death John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 1844 Birthday Verney L. Cameroon, English explorer, Tanganyika 1843 Birthday Charles Wentworth Dilke, English under minister of Foreign affairs 1843 Birthday Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian 1843 Death Robert Southey, English Poet 1842 Death Grace Darling, English Celebrity 1841 Birthday Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general, Egypt 1841 Death Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45 1840 Death John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50 1840 Birthday Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician 1840 Birthday Henry Austin Dobson, English Poet 1839 Birthday Redvers H Buller, English general/large landowner: Natal 1839 Birthday John Eliot, English meteorologist 1839 Birthday Francis W. Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer 1839 Birthday Ouida, English Novelist 1839 Event 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" 1838 Death Joseph Lancaster, English Educator 1838 Event Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law 1838 Birthday Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher, Wife at University 1838 Event English steamship "Great Western" crossing Atlantic docks in New York City 1838 Event English steamship "Sirius" docks in New York City after Atlantic crossing 1838 Death Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73 1837 Death Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter 1837 Death John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 1837 Death John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 1836 Event Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex) 1836 Event 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii 1836 Birthday Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, Diseases of the Heart 1835 Birthday Edwin Hatch, English Theologian 1835 Birthday Richard Garnett, English author, Ananda the Miracle Worker 1835 Birthday Henry James Byron, English Dramatist 1835 Birthday Charles Bowen, English Judge 1834 Birthday Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist, moral restraint 1834 Birthday Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist 1834 Birthday Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer, John Inglesant 1834 Death Charles Lamb, English Critic 1834 Death William Carey, English Clergyman 1834 Birthday William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer 1834 Birthday John Acton, born in Naples, Italy, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie 1833 Death Richard Heber, English Celebrity 1833 Death Hannah More, English Writer 1833 Death Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65 1833 Death William Wilberforce, English Politician 1833 Death Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46 1832 Birthday Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist 1832 Birthday William Crookes, English chemist/physicist, Crookes-pipe, thallium 1832 Birthday Edwin Arnold, English writer, Light of India 1832 Death Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher 1832 Death George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 1831 Birthday Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet 1831 Birthday Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English under king of India 1831 Birthday Isabella Bird, English Writer 1831 Death James Northcote, English Artist 1831 Death Sarah Kemble Siddons, English actress (Lady Macbeth), dies at 75 1830 Birthday Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer 1829 Death William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56 1829 Event English Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics 1828 Birthday Gerald Massey, English Poet 1828 Birthday Joseph B. Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham 1827 Birthday William GGVV Harcourt, English lawyer/Minister of Finance 1827 Death William Blake, English poet/painter, dies at 69 1827 Birthday Frederick A. Able, English chemist/inventor, cordiet 1827 Death Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73 1827 Event English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches 1827 Birthday William Holdman Hunt, English painter, Light of the World 1827 Death Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63 1826 Death John Flaxman, English sculptor (tombs at St. Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71 1826 Birthday George Parr, cricketer, legendary Notts batsman, 1st English touring captain 1826 Birthday Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist 1825 Birthday Adelaide Anne Procter, English Poet 1825 Birthday Thomas Huxley, English Scientist 1825 Death Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet 1825 Event 1st grand opera in U.S. sung in English, New York City 1825 Birthday Brooke Foss Westcott, English Theologian 1824 Birthday George Edmund Street, English Architect 1824 Birthday George Jessel, English Judge 1824 Birthday William Wilkie Collins, English novelist, Woman in White 1824 Birthday Wilkie Collins, English Novelist 1823 Death Robert Bloomfield, English Poet 1823 Birthday Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet 1823 Death John P Kemble, English actor and director (Covent Garden), dies at 66 1823 Event English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from S pole 1823 Death Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58 1823 Death Ann Radcliffe, English Author 1822 Birthday Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian 1822 Death Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29 1822 Birthday Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer, rails/trains 1821 Death John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52 1821 Birthday Richard Francis Burton, English Writer 1821 Birthday George Linnaeus Banks, English Writer 1820 Death Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies 1820 Birthday Anna Sewell, English Writer 1820 Birthday Jean Ingelow, English Poet 1820 Birthday Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet, Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1819 Event Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators 1819 Birthday Charles Kingsley, Parson Lot, English vicar/historian, Westward Ho! 1819 Birthday John Couch Adams, English astronomer, co-discover Neptune 1819 Birthday Henry Tate, English sugar producer Tate Gallery 1819 Birthday Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer 1818 Birthday Eliza Cook, English Poet 1818 Death Philip Francis, English Politician 1818 Event 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves 1818 Birthday Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist 1818 Birthday Emily Bronte, English Novelist 1817 Birthday John Leech, English Artist 1817 Birthday John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway 1817 Birthday George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer, Life of Goethe 1817 Birthday John Glover, English chemist, sulfuric acid 1817 Event English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia 1816 Birthday William Bowman, English anatomist 1816 Event English steamship "Defiance" arrives at Rotterdam harbor 1816 Birthday Philip James Bailey, English poet, Festus 1816 Birthday Frederick William Robertson, English Clergyman 1815 Birthday Grace Darling, English Celebrity 1815 Birthday Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne], English illustrator, Pickwick Papers 1815 Event English militia shoots prisoners, 100's killed 1815 Death Edward Pakenham, English general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle 1814 Death Thomas Spence, English Writer 1814 Birthday James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician 1814 Death Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40 1814 Birthday Ellen Wood, English author, East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey 1814 Birthday James Paget, English surgeon, disease of Paget 1813 Death Tecumseh, U.S. Shawnee-chief/English General (Battle of Thames), dies 1813 Birthday Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator 1812 Birthday Charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies 1812 Birthday Henry Mayhew, English Journalist 1812 Death Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle 1812 Event Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting and immoral. No wonder it caught on! 1811 Death Thomas Percy, English bishop of Dromore, dies at 82 1811 Event English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies 1811 Death August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75 1810 Birthday Henry Alford, English Clergyman 1810 Birthday William Hepworth Thompson, English Educator 1809 Event English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen 1809 Birthday William Chappell, English Writer 1809 Event English invasion army lands in Walcheren 1809 Death Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist 1808 Birthday Charles Tennyson Turner, English Poet 1808 Death Richard Hurd, English Writer 1807 Death Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies 1807 Event Curacao is taken by English, until March, 1816 1806 Death Charlotte Turner Smith, English Poet 1806 Death Samuel Horsley, English Clergyman 1806 Death Charles James Fox, English Politician 1806 Event English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires 1806 Event Cape colony becomes English colony 1805 Birthday George Muller, English Clergyman 1805 Death Christopher Anstey, English Poet 1805 Birthday Francis W. Newman, English Writer 1805 Death William Paley, English Theologian 1805 Birthday James Martineau, English Philosopher 1805 Birthday William H Ainsworth, English writer, Old St. Paul's, Rookwood 1805 Birthday William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist 1804 Death William Forsyth, English gardening expert (Forsythia), dies 1804 Event Suriname sold to English, until February, 1816 1804 Event 31 English ship sail Suriname river demand transition colony 1804 Death Joseph Priestley, English / U.S0 theologist, philosopher. and chemist, dies at 70 1804 Death Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies 1803 Birthday Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity 1803 Birthday Titus Salt, English Businessman 1803 Birthday Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet 1803 Birthday Richard Henry Horne, English Poet 1802 Event English sell Suriname to Dutch 1802 Death Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62 1801 Death Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies 1801 Birthday Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect, Crystal Palace 1801 Death Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 1800 Birthday Henry Taylor, English Dramatist 1800 Birthday George Bentham, English Scientist 1800 Event Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803) 1800 Death William Cowper, English lawyer/poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68 1800 Event English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die 1799 Event Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs 1799 Event Battle at Castricum: French and Bataafs army beats English/Russian army 1799 Event English and Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver 1799 Death John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68 1799 Event Bataafse fleet surrender to English 1799 Event English invasion army lands in North-Holland 1799 Event English fleet under lord Seymour overthrows Suriname 1799 Death John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58 1799 Death William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53 1799 Birthday Thomas Hood, English poet/composer, Song of the Shirt 1799 Birthday Thomas Hewitt Key, English Writer 1799 Birthday John Lindley, English botanist, Elements of Botany 1798 Event Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English 1797 Death John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 1797 Event Battle at Kamperduin: English fleet destroys Bataafse 1797 Death Jeffrey Amherst, English Governor-General of America, dies at 80 1796 Birthday George Back, English sea officer/explorer, North Canada 1796 Event English beat Bataafs Navy in Saldanha Bay 1796 Birthday Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists 1795 Birthday Thomas Ainsworth, English/Netherlands industrialist, Twentse textile 1795 Death Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70 1795 Birthday Julius Charles Hare, English Clergyman 1795 Birthday Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome 1794 Event English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French 1793 Event Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine 1793 Death William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens), dies at 61 1792 Birthday Charles Babbage, English inventor, calculating machine 1792 Event English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900 1792 Death Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60 1792 Death John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73 1792 Death John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78 1792 Death Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68 1790 Death Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies 1790 Birthday John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist 1789 Birthday John Martin, English painter 1788 Birthday Richard Harris Barham, English Comedian 1788 Death Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61 1788 Event English parliament accepts abolishing of slave trade 1788 Death Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67 1788 Death [Bonnie Prince] Charles E Stuart, English pretender, dies at 67 1788 Event Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay NSW 1788 Event Captain Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Port Jackson, New South Wales 1788 Event English settlers arrive in Australia's Botany Bay to setup penal colony 1787 Birthday Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic 1787 Death Robert Lowth, English Author 1787 Event English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes 1787 Birthday William Etty, English painter, nudes 1787 Birthday Richard Whately, English Writer 1786 Birthday Henry Drummond, English banker/apostole 1786 Death Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68 1786 Death John Goodricke, English deaf and dumb astronomer, dies at 21 1785 Birthday Thomas Love Peacock, English author, Headlong Hall 1785 Birthday Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer, Confessions of English Opium Eater 1785 Birthday William J Hooker, English botanist/director, Kew Gardens 1785 Event 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard and Jeffries) 1784 Death Samuel Johnson, English Author 1784 Birthday Lord Henry JT Palmerston, English minister of Foreign affairs 1784 Birthday James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Writer 1784 Event English parliament accept India Act 1784 Birthday Andre-Georges-Louis Onslow, English/French composer, chamber music 1784 Death Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies 1784 Birthday John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English, opera, composer/diplomat 1784 Birthday George HG earl of Aberdeen, English Secretary of State 1783 Event English government of Pitt, Jr. forms 1783 Event English king George III fires government of Portland 1783 Event 1st execution at English Newgate-jail 1783 Birthday David Cox, English painter, Treatise on landscape painting 1783 Event Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India 1783 Death Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67 1782 Death Richard Kempenfeldt, English admiral, drowns 1782 Death William Emerson, English Mathematician 1782 Event Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English 1781 Event English troops occupy Negapatam Ceylon 1781 Event Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet 1781 Event English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia 1780 Death Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36 1780 Death William Blackstone, English lawyer, dies at 56 1779 Event English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels 1779 Death Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker, dies at 61 1779 Death William Warburton, English Critic 1779 Death William Boyce, English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies 1778 Event English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia 1778 Birthday Hunphry Davy, English chemist, discovered some elements 1778 Birthday Joseph Lancaster, English Educator 1778 Birthday George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, born in London, England, English dandy 1778 Death William Pitt Sr, English premier (1756-61, 66-68), dies at 69 1778 Death Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67 1777 Event France recognizes independence of English colonies in America 1777 Death Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle 1777 Event English General William Howe occupies Philadelphia 1777 Event English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia 1777 Event English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting U.S. flag 1775 Birthday Thomas Cochrane, English Politician 1775 Birthday J. M. W. Turner, English Artist 1775 Event Edmund Burke presents his 13 articles to the English parliament 1775 Event English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion 1775 Death John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68 1774 Birthday Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson 1774 Death Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68 1774 Event English parliament accepts Quebec Act 1774 Event England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes 1774 Event English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill 1774 Birthday Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer, coast Australia 1774 Event English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright 1773 Death Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48 1773 Birthday Richard Heber, English Celebrity 1772 Birthday William Congreve, English officer, design fire rocket 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54 1771 Death Thomas Gray, English Poet 1770 Death Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62 1770 Death Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies 1770 Death Mark Akenside, English Poet 1770 Birthday David Thompson, English/Canadian explorer, Columbia River 1769 Birthday William Jay, English Clergyman 1768 Birthday John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher 1768 Event English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston 1768 Birthday Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist 1767 Death John Newberry, English publisher, dies 1766 Birthday Robert Bloomfield, English Poet 1766 Birthday John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter 1766 Event English premier Rockingham resigns 1765 Death Duke of Cumberland, English politician/uncle of George III, dies 1765 Death William August duke of Cumberland, English supreme commander, dies at 44 1765 Death Edward Young, English poet (Love of Fame), dies at 81 1765 Birthday Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat 1764 Birthday John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society 1764 Birthday Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist, Italian 1764 Birthday Ann Radcliffe, English Author 1764 Death George Parker, English astronomer, dies 1764 Event John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women" 1763 Event English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel 1763 Birthday Frederick of York, English duke/bishop of Osnabruck 1763 Birthday Samuel Rogers, English poet, Italy, a poem 1763 Death John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72 1762 Event English troops occupy Manila Philippines 1762 Birthday William Lisle Bowles, English poet, 14 Sonnets 1762 Event English fleet occupies Havana 1762 Event English fleet occupies Martinique 1761 Birthday William Carey, English Clergyman 1761 Birthday Henry Scrapnel, English inventor, shrapnel shell 1761 Death Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 1761 Death Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83 1759 Birthday William Wilberforce, English Politician 1759 Death William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37 1759 Birthday William Pitt, the Younger, C, English PM, 1783-1801, 1804-06 1759 Death Anne of Hannover, English princess, dies at 49 1758 Event English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York 1757 Birthday William Blake, English poet/painter, Songs of Innocence and Experience 1757 Event English Ft. William Henry, New York, surrenders to French and Indians troops 1757 Event English king George II fires minister William Pitt, Sr. 1757 Death John Byng, English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 1757 Death Edward Moore, English Dramatist 1756 Birthday Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher 1755 Event English minister William Pitt Sr resigns 1755 Event Henry Fox appointed English Secretary of State 1755 Event Battle at Lake George: English army beats France 1755 Birthday John Flaxman, English sculptor, Westminster Abbey tomb stones 1754 Death Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 1754 Event Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier 1754 Death Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57 1753 Birthday Samuel Crompton, English inventor, mule-jenny spinning machine 1753 Birthday John Soane, English architect, Bank of England, Soane Museum 1753 Event English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship 1753 Death Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92 1752 Birthday Thomas Chatterton, English poet, Christabel 1752 Death John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85 1752 Event French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India 1751 Event English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India 1751 Death Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies 1750 Birthday Thomas Spence, English Writer 1749 Event English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post 1749 Birthday Charlotte Smith, English Poet 1749 Birthday Charles James Fox, English Politician 1748 Death Edmund Gibson, English Judge 1748 Death William Kent, English sculptor/architect (Kensington Palace), dies 1748 Event English Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize US 1747 Event Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army 1747 Death Lord Lovat, English jacobiet, dies 1746 Birthday James Northcote, English Artist 1746 Event Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherlands armies 1746 Event Henry Pelham appointed English premier 1746 Event English Pelham government resigns 1746 Birthday William Curtis, English botanist/publisher, Botanical Magazine 1745 Birthday Thomas Holcroft, English Dramatist 1745 Death Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), dies 1745 Event Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army 1745 Event English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St. Lawrence River 1745 Death Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 1745 Birthday Hannah More, English Writer 1744 Event English premier John Carteret resigns 1744 Death Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56 1744 Event Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews) 1743 Death Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46 1743 Death Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies 1743 Event English defeat French at Dettingen 1743 Birthday Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet 1743 Event English premiere of Handel's "Messiah" 1742 Death William Somerville, English Poet 1742 Death Edmond Halley, English Scientist 1741 Event English fleet under Admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena 1741 Event English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena 1740 Birthday John Bacon, English sculptor 1740 Birthday Philip Francis, English Politician 1739 Death George Lillo, English dramatist (Fatal Curiosity), dies at 46 1738 Birthday F William Herschel, German/English astronomer, discovered Uranus 1738 Death Joe Miller, English comic, dies 1738 Birthday George III, English King during American Revolution, 1760-1820 1738 Event English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear) 1737 Event Prince Frederick of Wales escapes English court 1737 Death Eustace Budgell, English Writer 1737 Birthday Edward Gibbon, English Historian 1735 Birthday August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke of Grafton/English premier 1735 Birthday Johann Christian Bach, composer, son of JS Bach, English Bach 1734 Death Louise de Keroualle, English duchess/mistress of king Charles II, dies 1734 Birthday Ralph Abercromby, English army commander, Dutch Guyana 1733 Birthday Samuel Horsley, English Clergyman 1733 Event James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC 1732 Death John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 1732 Death Francis Atterbury, English Politician 1731 Death J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies at 46 1731 Birthday William Cowper, English lawyer/poet, John Gilpin, 1731 Death Mary Astell, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage', dies soon after having breast cancer 1731 Death Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 1731 Death Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies 1731 Death Daniel Defoe, English Journalist 1730 Birthday John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia 1730 Birthday Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, English PM, 1765-76 1729 Death Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty and Necessity), dies at 53 1729 Death Richard Blackmore, English Poet 1729 Birthday Jean de Neufville, Dutch / U.S. merchant, started 4th English war 1729 Birthday Thomas Percy, English literary/bishop of Dromore 1729 Death William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), dies at 58 1728 Birthday Robert Bage, English writer, Criticism by Peter Faulkner 1727 Birthday Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, Blue Boy, baptized 1727 Death Isaac Newton, English Mathematician 1727 Death Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 1726 Death Jeremy Collier, English bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75 1726 Death John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62 1725 Birthday John Wilkes, English journalist/MP, N Briton 1725 Birthday Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India 1725 Death Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63 1724 Death Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged 1724 Birthday Christopher Anstey, English Poet 1724 Event Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs 1724 Event Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War 1724 Death Peter Schuyler, English Politician 1723 Death Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies 1722 Death John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 1722 Birthday Christopher Smart, English poet and journalist, Ceremony of Carols 1721 Birthday Mark Akenside, English Poet 1721 Birthday William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader 1721 Event English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower 1721 Death James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47 1720 Birthday [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne 1720 Birthday Richard Hurd, English Writer 1719 Death Joseph Addison, English poet, writer, and secretary of state, dies at 47 1718 Death Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, English pirate, killed off Virginia coast 1718 Event Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish 1718 Event Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish 1718 Death William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer 'No cross, no crown', dies 1717 Birthday Jeffrey Amherst, English Governor-General of America/Field Marshal 1716 Birthday Thomas Gray, English poet, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 1715 Event English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead 1715 Death George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 1715 Event 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn 1715 Event Battle at Sheriffmuir: English army beats Scottish earl of Mar 1715 Death Nahum Tate, English poet/playwright/poet laureate, dies 1714 Birthday William Shenstone, English Poet 1714 Event Georg Ludwig van Hannover crowned as English King George I 1714 Event English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley 1714 Death Matthew Henry, English Clergyman 1713 Death Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies 1713 Birthday John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier, 1760-63 1713 Event Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese and French peace treaty 1712 Death Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 1712 Death Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 1712 Death Thomas Osborne, English Prime Minister 1690 - 1694, dies at 80 1712 Death Richard Cromwell, English Lord Protector (1658-59), dies at 85 1712 Birthday Edward Moore, English Dramatist 1711 Event Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander 1711 Birthday David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher, Treatise of Human Nature 1711 Event Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder 1710 Event Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1710 Event Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured 1710 Birthday Robert Lowth, English Author 1710 Event English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia) 1710 Birthday Thomas Simpson, English mathematician, rules of Simpson 1710 Event Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance 1710 Birthday Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, Alfred, Rule Britannia 1710 Birthday William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music 1709 Death Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60 1709 Birthday Anna van Hannover, English princess/duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg 1709 Birthday Samuel Johnson, English Author 1709 Death William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62 1709 Death John Philips, English Poet 1708 Event Dutch and English troops occupy Lille (Rijsel) 1708 Event English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia 1708 Event English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk 1708 Event English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth 1708 Birthday Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist 1707 Event English/Scottish parliament accept Act of Union, form Great Britain 1706 Birthday John Baskerville, English printer, typeface inventor 1705 Event English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona 1704 Death John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72 1704 Event Battle at Malaga: French vs English and Dutch fleet 1704 Event War of Spanish Succession, English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar 1704 Event English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar 1704 Event English and Dutch troops occupy Gibraltar 1703 Death John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies 1703 Event English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal 1703 Birthday John Wesley, English Clergyman 1703 Death Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 70 1703 Event Dutch and English troops occupy Cologne 1702 Death John Benbow, English Vice-Admiral (Santa Marta), dies 1702 Event English troops plunder St. Augustine, Florida 1702 Event Battle in Bay of Vigo: Netherlands/English fleet destroy Spanish/French fleet 1702 Event Dutch/English troops occupy Luik 1702 Event Battle of Bay of Vigo: Dutch and English fleet destroy and occupy Spanish silver fleet and French squadron 1702 Event English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond 1702 Death Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, English Prime Minister 1687 - 1688, dies at 61 1702 Event Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French 1702 Event Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament 1702 Event 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes 1702 Death Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies 1702 Death Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies 1701 Death William Kidd, English / U.S. buccaneer, hanged 1701 Event Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover 1701 Birthday William Emerson, English Mathematician 1700 Event Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark 1700 Death John Dryden, English Poet 1700 Death John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies 1698 Birthday William Warburton, English Critic 1697 Event English parliament accept army reduction 1697 Event Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War 1697 Death John Aubrey, English writer, wrote 'Brief Lives', died of apoplexy 1697 Event English king Willem III travels through northern Europe 1696 Event English king Willem III departs Netherlands 1696 Event English / Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Assn 1695 Death Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36 1695 Event Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names 1695 Event English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk 1695 Event English king Willem III departs to Netherlands 1694 Event English parliamentary election set for every 3 years 1694 Event English troop landing at Brest attack, 300 killed 1694 Event English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest 1693 Event Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army 1693 Birthday Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, English minister of finance 1693 Birthday George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist, London Merchant 1692 Event Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army 1692 Event Battle at La Hogue: English and Dutch fleet beat France 1691 Death Richard Baxter, English Clergyman 1691 Event English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland 1691 Event Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France 1691 Death George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56 1691 Event English king Willem III travels to The Hague 1690 Event English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade 1690 Event Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Netherlands/English fleet 1690 Event English king Willem III departs to Ireland 1690 Death John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85 1690 Event English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia 1690 Birthday John Carteret, Earl Granville, C, English chief minister, 1722-42 1689 Death Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist 1689 Event English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution 1689 Event Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French 1689 Birthday Samuel Richardson, English novelist, Pamela, baptized 1689 Birthday Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric 1689 Event English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants 1689 Event Battle of Bantry Bay, French and English naval battle 1689 Event English King Willem III declares war on France 1689 Death Aphra Behn, English Dramatist 1689 Event Former English King James II lands in Ireland 1689 Event English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne 1689 Event English parliament ends king Charles II reign 1689 Event Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords 1689 Event Prince Willem III calls English parliament together 1688 Event English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France 1688 Event English king Jacob II flees to France 1688 Event Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy 1688 Death Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (Intellectual system), dies at 70? 1687 Death Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II, dies at 37 1687 Death Edmund Waller, English poet/plotter (Waller's plot), dies 1687 Event King James II disbands English parliament 1686 Birthday Eustace Budgell, English Writer 1686 Event English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence 1685 Birthday John Gay, English poet, Beggar's Opera 1685 Birthday Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet, Tragedy of Zara 1684 Event Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted 1683 Event English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland 1683 Death Algernon Sidney, English Whig politician/plotter, beheaded 1683 Death Lord William Russell, English plotter against Charles II, beheaded 1683 Birthday Edward Young, English poet, Revenge, Complaint 1683 Event Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered 1682 Event English earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam 1682 Event English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland 1682 Event English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet 1681 Death William Lilly, English astrologer, dies 1681 Event English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania 1680 Death Thomas Blood, English Soldier 1679 Death Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher 1679 Event English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill 1679 Event King Charles II disbands English parliament 1678 Event Roman Catholics banned from English parliament 1678 Death Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57 1678 Event English troops lands in Flanders 1677 Event Prince Willem III Henry marries English princess Mary Stuart 1676 Birthday John Philips, English Poet 1676 Birthday Anthony Collins, English philosopher, A discourse on free-thinking 1675 Death John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73 1675 Event English king Charles II adjourns parliament 1675 Birthday William Somerville, English Poet 1674 Death Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English Prime Minister 1660 - 1667, dies at 65 1674 Event Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English 1674 Death John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65 1674 Death Thomas Traherne, English poet/mystic (Roman Forgeries), dies 1674 Event Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (New York City becomes English) 1674 Event English reconquer New York from Netherlands 1673 Event Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English and French fleet 1673 Event Dutch recapture New York from English; regained by English in 1674 1673 Event Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 1673 Event English king Charles II accept Test Act: RC excluded of public functions 1672 Death John Wilkins, English Clergyman 1672 Event Battle by Solebay: Dutch Admiral M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet 1671 Death Thomas, 3rd baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 59 1671 Death Edward Montagu, English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68 1671 Event King Charles II sits in on English parliament 1670 Death Dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies 1670 Event English king Charles II and French king Louis XIV sign anti-Dutch treaty 1670 Death George Monck, English general(-to the-sea), dies at 61 1669 Event John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved 1668 Event John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate 1668 Death William Davenant, English Poet 1668 Event English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company 1667 Event English fleet plunders Suriname plantations 1667 Event Peace of Breda: 2nd English war-Suriname vs New-Netherlands ends 1667 Death Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies 1667 Event Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet 1667 Event English colony Suriname in Dutch hands 1666 Birthday Mary Astell, born in Newcastle, England, English writer and feminist, wrote 'Some Reflections upon Marriage' 1666 Event English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter 1666 Event Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet 1665 Event English fleet beat Dutch fleet 1665 Event Battle at Viciosa: English and Portuguese army beat Spain 1665 Event Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch 1665 Event English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out 1665 Event Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain 1665 Event English king Charles II declares war on Netherlands 1665 Event Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English 1664 Event English colonizing Connecticut 1664 Event Dutch Fort Orange (Albany New York) surrenders to English 1664 Event Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women and black men 1664 Event Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers 1664 Birthday Matthew Prior, English poet 1663 Event English parliament accepts Staple Act 1663 Event Battle at Amegical: English and Portugese fleet beats Spanish 1663 Birthday Francis Atterbury, English Politician 1663 Birthday Thomas Newcomen, English co-inventor, steam engine 1662 Birthday Matthew Henry, English Clergyman 1662 Event Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer 1662 Event Connecticut chartered as an English colony 1662 Death Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I, dies at 65 1661 Birthday Robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier, Whig, 1710-14 1661 Death Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 1661 Event Portugal gives Tanger and Bombay to English King Charles II 1661 Event English king Charles II crowned in London 1660 Event Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth 1660 Event English King Charles II lands in Dover 1660 Event English king Charles II visits Netherlands 1660 Event English parliament asks King Charles II to resigns 1660 Event English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion) 1660 Event English Long Parliament disbands 1659 Event General-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-govt 1659 Event English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals 1659 Event Richard Cromwell resigns as English Lord Protector 1659 Event Lord protector Cromwell disbands English parliament 1659 Birthday Henry Purcell, English organist/composer, Dido and Aeneas 1658 Event Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector 1658 Event Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish 1658 Event Battle at Dunes: English and French fleet beat Spanish 1658 Death Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, English Lord High Admiral, dies at 70 1657 Birthday Peter Schuyler, English Politician 1657 Death Robert Blake, English Admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57 1657 Event Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert 1657 Event Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet 1657 Event English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown 1657 Event English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown 1656 Birthday Edmund Halley, English astronomer, comet of Halley 1656 Birthday Edmond Halley, English Scientist 1656 Death Joseph Hall, English Clergyman 1655 Event English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans 1655 Event Jamaica captured by English 1655 Event English Admiral Blake beats Tunen pirate fleet 1655 Event Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates 1654 Death John Selden, English Statesman 1654 Event Anglo-Portuguese treaty, Portugal comes under English control 1654 Birthday Richard Blackmore, English Poet 1653 Event Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector 1653 Event Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch 1653 Event Battle at North Foreland: English fleet beats Dutch 1653 Event Cromwell routes English parliament to house 1653 Event Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno 1652 Death Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies 1652 Event Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet 1652 Event Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English 1652 Birthday William Dampier, English explorer/pirate 1652 Event English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp 1651 Death Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40 1651 Event English troops occupy Limerick Ireland 1651 Event English parliament proclaims Navigation Act off 1651 Event Battle at Worcester-Oliver Cromwell destroys English royalists 1650 Death Richard Crashaw, English Poet 1650 Birthday John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist 1650 Birthday Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, English actress/mistress, King Charles II 1649 Death Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36 1649 Death Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies 1649 Event Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow 1649 Death Isaac Doreslaer, English lawyer/diplomat, murdered 1649 Birthday James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II 1649 Birthday John Blow, composer of 1st English opera, Venus and Adonis, baptized 1648 Birthday Gregory King, English statistician, Natural and Political Observations 1648 Event Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament 1648 Event English army captures King Charles I 1648 Death Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65 1648 Event English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed 1647 Death Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61 1647 Birthday Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English Minister of Foreign Affairs 1647 Event King Charles I handed over to English parliament 1647 Event Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 40 pounds 1647 Event Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament 1646 Death Thomas H earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies 1646 Event English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions 1645 Death lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded 1645 Event English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance 1644 Birthday William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania 1644 Death Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies 1644 Death William Chillingworth, English theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies 1643 Death John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59 1643 Death William Cartwright, English Dramatist 1643 Event Battle at Wincebt: English New Model-army beats royalists 1643 Death John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48 1643 Event Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists 1642 Event Battle at Turnham Green, London: King Charles I vs English parliament 1642 Event Battle at Edgeville (Warwick): King Charles I vs English parliament 1642 Birthday George Hickes, English linguistic, Old German Philology 1642 Event English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 1642 Event King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament 1641 Death Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50 1641 Event Catholic uprising in Ulster: 1000s English and Scots killed 1641 Event Prince Willem II (14) marries English princess Henriette Mary Stuart (9) 1641 Death Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48 1641 Event English king Charles I accept Triennial Act 1641 Death Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomical prodigy, dies at 22 1640 Event English Long Parliament forms 1640 Event English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland 1640 Event English Short Parliament unites 1640 Event English Upper house accept Act of Attainder 1640 Event English Short Parliament forms 1639 Death Thomas Carew, English poet/diplomat (The Rapture), dies 1637 Death Ben Jonson, English Poet 1634 Event English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax 1634 Death Edward Coke, English Chief Justice/politician, dies 1634 Death John Marston, English Poet 1634 Death George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies 1633 Death William Ames, English Philosopher 1633 Death George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60 1633 Death George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39 1633 Birthday Nathaniel Crew, English bishop, Durham 1632 Death John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 1632 Birthday Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-1694, founder, Tories 1631 Death Arabella Holles, wife of English politician Thomas Wentworth, dies 1631 Birthday John Dryden, English poet/playwright, Heroic Stanzas 1631 Event English colony Massachusetts Bay grants puritarian voting right 1630 Birthday Charles Cotton, English Poet 1629 Event English king Charles I leaces house of commons 1628 Event English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights 1628 Death John Bull, English organist/composer, dies 1627 Birthday John Ray, English Environmentalist 1627 Event English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rhe 1627 Event English assault on French Il de Re 1627 Event English fleet under George Villiers reaches La Rochelle 1627 Event English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle 1627 Death Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41 1627 Event English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company 1626 Death Edmund Gunter, English Mathematician 1626 Death Lancelot Andrewes, English theologist/bishop of Winchester, dies at 71 1626 Event King Charles I disbands English parliament 1626 Birthday John Aubrey, born in Percy, England, English writer, wrote 'Brief Lives' 1626 Death Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51 1626 Death John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 1625 Event English king Charles I marries French princess Henriette 1625 Death Orlando Gibbons, English organist/composer (Silver Swan), dies at 41 1625 Event Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends English throne 1624 Birthday Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist 1624 Birthday William, Jamestown, Virginia, 1st black child born in English America 1624 Event Judge directs U.S. colony Virginia to English crown 1624 Event English parliament comes together 1623 Death William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72 1623 Death William Byrd, English composer (Ave verum corpus), dies at 80 1622 Birthday Henry Vaughan, English poet, Silex Scintillans 1622 Event King James I disbands the English parliament 1621 Event English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament 1621 Event English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation 1620 Event English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam 1620 Death William Adams, English Explorer 1619 Death Samuel Daniel, English Poet 1619 Birthday John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader 1619 Death Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies 1619 Death Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53 1618 Death Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason 1618 Event Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor 1616 Birthday John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer, product of Wallis 1616 Event English King Jacob I leaves Brielle/Vlissingen 1616 Death William Shakesphere, English author (Hamlet) 1616 Death William Shakespeare, English Dramatist 1615 Birthday Richard Baxter, English Clergyman 1615 Birthday John Biddle, English minister, Unitarian 1614 Event Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe 1614 Birthday John Wilkins, English Clergyman 1613 Event English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts 1612 Event Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese 1612 Birthday Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader, King's Men 1612 Birthday Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general 1611 Birthday Henry Ireton, English general/MP, Edgehill 1611 Birthday William Cartwright, English Dramatist 1610 Death Benedict van Canfield, William Fish, English missionary, dies 1610 Death Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 1610 Event King James I addresses English House of Commons 1609 Event Bermuda becomes an English colony 1609 Birthday Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM, 1660-67 1609 Birthday John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier 1608 Birthday George Monck/Monk, English general and Governor of Scotland 1608 Event 1st English convoy lands at Surat India 1607 Event 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia 1607 Event English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA 1605 Event Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged 1603 Death Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68 1603 Event New English king James I departs Edinburgh for London 1603 Event Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish 1602 Event Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold 1602 Birthday John Lightfoot, English theologist and literary, Horae Hebraicae 1602 Death Alexander Nowell, English churchman, dean of St. Paul's, dies 1602 Event Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish 1602 Event Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale 1598 Death William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77 1597 Event Germany throws out English sales people 1596 Event English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant" 1596 Birthday Elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I 1596 Event English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz 1596 Event English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz 1596 Death Francis Drake, English Soldier 1596 Birthday Henry Lawes, English composer 1595 Death John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63 1595 Death Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies 1595 Death Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest 1595 Death Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged 1595 Death Francis Drake, English pirate (Porto Bello West Indies), dies at 50 1594 Death Martin Frobisher, English Vice-Admiral/explorer, dies 1594 Death William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 1593 Death John Penry, English congressionalist, executed 1593 Death Henry Barrow, English puritian/Congressionalist, hanged 1593 Death John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged 1593 Birthday George Herbert, English metaphysical poet, 5 Mystical Songs 1593 Event English Congressionalist Henry Barrow accused of slander 1592 Birthday Francis Quarles, English poet, Argalus and Parthenia, Emblems 1592 Birthday George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/English admiral 1592 Birthday John Eliot, St. Germans Cornwall, English MP/author 1591 Event Battle at Flores Azores: Spanish beat English 1590 Event English Admiral Francis Drake takess Portuguese Forts at Taag 1590 Death Francis Walsingham, English Secretary of State, dies at about 57 1588 Event Sea battle at Grevelingen: English fleet battles Spanish armada 1588 Event English assault on Spanish Armada 1588 Event English Admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada 1588 Event English fleet beats Spanish Armada 1588 Event Attacking Spanish Armada defeated and scattered by English defenders 1588 Event English fleet defeats Spanish armada 1588 Birthday John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Mass 1587 Birthday 1st English child born in New World, Virginia Dare 1587 Birthday Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents 1587 Event 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC 1587 Event English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1587 Event English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1587 Event English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence 1586 Death Philip Sidney, English poet/diplomat, dies in battle at 32 1586 Event Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army 1586 Event English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina 1586 Birthday John Ford, English dramatist, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 1585 Event English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen 1585 Event English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland 1585 Event English Queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: Aid for Netherlands 1585 Event English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I 1585 Event Spain confisquates English ships 1584 Birthday John Selden, English Statesman 1584 Event English parliament throws out Jesuits 1583 Birthday Orlando Gibbons, English composer, O Clap Your Hands, baptized 1583 Event Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) 1583 Death Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64 1583 Birthday Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military and philosopher 1581 Event English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested 1581 Event English parliament passes laws against Catholicism 1580 Death Edmund Campion, English jesuit, hanged at 42 1580 Birthday Thomas Middleton, English playwright, Game of Chess 1579 Event Francois van Anjou visits English queen Elizabeth I 1576 Birthday John Marston, English Poet 1575 Event English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly 1574 Birthday Joseph Hall, English Clergyman 1573 Birthday William Laud, English archbishop of Canterbury, 1633-45 1572 Death Thomas Howard 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl, executed at 36 1571 Death John Jewel, English Clergyman 1571 Birthday Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician 1569 Death Edmund Bonner, English bishop of London 1539 - 1549, dies at 69 1569 Death Miles Coverdale, English bible translator Great bible, dies at 80 1568 Event English queen Elizabeth I arrests Scottish queen Mary 1568 Event Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside 1568 Death Miles Coverdale, translator (1st complete English Bible), dies at 80 1567 Death Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered 1564 Birthday William Adams, English Explorer 1564 Birthday Christopher Marlowe, English Dramatist 1564 Birthday Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist, Dr. Faustus 1563 Birthday Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister, 1598-1612 1562 Birthday George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury 1560 Death Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident 1559 Birthday Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian 1559 Death Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52 1558 Event Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary 1558 Death Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58 1558 Birthday Thomas Kyd, English dramatist, Spanish Tragedy 1558 Event Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French 1555 Death Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65 1555 Event English parliament refuses to recognize Philip of Spain as king 1555 Death Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned 1554 Death Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies 1553 Event English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason 1553 Event English Hugh Latimer arrested 1553 Event Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor 1553 Death John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded 1553 Event English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley 1551 Event English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset re-arrested 1551 Birthday William Camden, English historian, Brittania, Annales 1551 Event John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal 1551 Event English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland 1550 Event William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs 1550 Event English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed 1549 Event John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier 1549 Event Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army 1549 Event English boer army occupies Norwich 1549 Death Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded 1547 Event Battle at Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots 1547 Event English demand Edward VI, 10, wed Mary Queen of Scots, 5 1546 Birthday Robert Parsons, English jesuit, A Letter Disclosure 1546 Death Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered 1546 Death Cardinal Beaton, English archbishop of St. Andrews, murdered 1546 Death Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46 1545 Death John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55 1545 Event English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland 1545 Death George Carew, English admiral, drowns 1545 Death Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns 1544 Event English King Henry VIII's troops occupy Boulogne 1544 Event Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France 1544 Event English troops attack The Canal 1542 Event Battle at Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James 1542 Birthday Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/Vice-Admiral, Roanoke 1540 Event English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife 1540 Event English ex chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic 1536 Event English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 1536 Event English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour 1536 Death Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded 1536 Birthday Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall 1536 Event English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries 1535 Event 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland 1535 Death John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65 1535 Event English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights 1535 Death John Houghton, English, executed 1535 Event Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church 1534 Event English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader 1534 Event English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope 1533 Birthday Elizabeth, daughter of English king Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn 1532 Death William Warham, English archbishop of Canterbury (1502-32), dies at 82 1532 Event Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor 1532 Event English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome 1531 Event English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting 1531 Event Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry 1529 Event English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested 1529 Event Thomas More appointed English Lord Chancellor 1529 Event Cardinal Thomas Wolsey lays-off English Lord Chancellor 1529 Death John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 1523 Event English troops occupy Montalidier France 1522 Birthday John Jewel, English Clergyman 1520 Birthday William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier 1518 Event English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan 1515 Event Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor 1514 Death Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide 1513 Event Battle of Flodden Fields; English defeat James IV of Scotland 1512 Event Battle at Brest: English fleet beats France 1510 Death Edmund Dudley, English treasurer, beheaded 1510 Death Richard Empson, English treasurer, beheaded 1510 Death Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies 1504 Event English guilds/corp goes under state control 1502 Death Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 1502 Death Arthur, English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragon, dies 1501 Event English crown prince Arthur marries Catharina of Aragon 1500 Birthday Reginald Pole, English Cardinal 1497 Event Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV 1496 Event English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore 1495 Death William Stanley, English lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy 1492 Event English Admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock 1483 Event Duke of Gloucester appoints himself English king Richard III 1483 Event Richard III usurps English throne 1477 Event 1st English printed book "Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers" 1475 Event Treaty of Picquigny, king Louis XI buys English contacts 1461 Event Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England 1453 Death John Dunstable, English composer, dies 1453 Event 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war 1453 Event 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops 1450 Event French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War 1446 Birthday Margaretha, English princess/duchess of Bourgondie 1431 Death Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19 1429 Event English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc 1429 Event Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English 1422 Birthday William Caxton, 1st English printer, Histories of Troy 1420 Event Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English 1417 Death John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged and burned 1403 Birthday Charles VII, King of France, 1422-61, drove out English 1401 Death William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London 1400 Death Geoffrey Chaucer, English Poet 1384 Death John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies 1381 Death John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged 1381 Death Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 1381 Event English boer uprising begins in Essex 1376 Event English "Good Parliament" meets 1376 Event English parliament demands supervision on royal outlay 1376 Event Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France 1364 Event Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany 1360 Event Treaty of Bretigny signed by English and French 1360 Event France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 1356 Event English defeat French at Battle of Poitiers 1355 Event English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais 1351 Event Sea battle at Zwartewaal: Willem V beats Hoeksen and English 1348 Event 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter) 1347 Event English troops conquer Ft. Calais 1340 Event Battle at Lock: English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed 1340 Event English king Edward III proclaimed king of France 1336 Event English King Edward III endswool export to Flanders 1298 Event English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk 1297 Event Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel Wm Wallace beats English 1297 Death Hugh de Cressingham, English treasurer, dies in battle 1292 Death John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62 1291 Event Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I 1290 Event Last of 16,000 English Jews expelled by King Edward I, leaves 1279 Death Robert Kilwardby/Anglicus, English philosopher/Cardinal, dies 1265 Event Battle at Evesham: English prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort 1265 Death Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle 1265 Event 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities) 1265 Event 1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester 1264 Event Battle at Lewes: Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III 1259 Event Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III and French king Louis IX 1253 Death Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 1253 Death Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies 1245 Death Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies 1236 Event English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence 1217 Event French prince Louis and English king Henry III sign peace treaty 1217 Event Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France 1217 Death Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, English encyclopedist, dies at 59 1215 Event English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country 1214 Event English king John begins siege around Lille France 1213 Event English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury 1192 Event English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured 1189 Death Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies 1167 Death Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies 1167 Death Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56 1159 Death Adrian IV, Nicole Breakspear, only English pope (1154-59), dies 1157 Birthday Alexander Neckum/de Sancto Albano, English theologist/encyclopedist 1138 Event English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard 1135 Event Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king 1120 Event English royal yacht "White Ship" leaves in storm 1120 Death Countess of Perche, bastard daughter of English king Henry I, drowns 1120 Death William, English crown prince/son of Henry I, drowns at 17 1106 Event Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert 1086 Event English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier 1061 Event Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed 1002 Event English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers 988 Death Dunstanus, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies 924 Death Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies 900 Death Alfred the Great, English monarch, dies 804 Death Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69 754 Death Boniface, Winfrid, English saint/archbishop (Dokkum), dies at 79 754 Death Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered 735 Death Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62 729 Death Egbertus, English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89 709 Death Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, English abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 69 689 Death Benedict Biscop, English saint, dies 673 Event Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
